Impact of legal status regularization on undocumented migrants' self-reported and mental health in Switzerland

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_9274C537863A
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Impact of legal status regularization on undocumented migrants' self-reported and mental health in Switzerland
Périodique
SSM - Population Health
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Refle Jan-Erik, Fakhoury Julien, Burton-Jeangros Claudine, Consoli Liala, Jackson Yves
ISSN
2352-8273
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
06/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
22
Pages
101398
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Undocumented migrants face cumulative difficulties like precarious living and working conditions or exclusion from health services that might negatively influence their health. Little is known about the evolution of undocumented migrants’ self-reported health (SRH) and mental health after they get documented. This study aims to observe the effect of legal status regularization on SRH and mental health in a cohort of migrants undergoing regularization in Geneva, Switzerland. We evaluate SRH with the first item of the Short Form Survey (SF12) and depression as a proxy of mental health with the PHQ-9 questionnaire over four years among 387 undocumented and newly documented migrants. Using hybrid linear models, our data show that regularization has no direct effect on SRH, but has direct positive effects on mental health in a longitudinal perspective, even when controlling for competing factors. The arrival of the pandemic did not alter these effects. Migrants tend to evaluate their subjective health status more positively than the prevalence of screened depression shows. Those findings point towards better targeted policies that could reduce the burden of depression among undocumented migrants.
Mots-clé
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health Policy, Health (social science)
Open Access
Oui
Création de la notice
24/04/2023 12:10
Dernière modification de la notice
25/04/2023 6:53
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