Table 2 Summary of study characteristics (N = 15)
Author, year [ref] | Study design | Study population and setting | Study sample | Study aim | Collected | Health Outcome | Access to Care | Health System | Social Determ. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Akhtar 2021 [22] | Observational cohort (adapted from RCT) | Syrian refugees living in Azraq refugee camp, Jordan | 410 randomly sampled and screened refugees | To determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh | July 2019 – November 2020 | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Bernardi 2021 [23] | Cross-sectional survey | Syrian Refugees in Istanbul, Turkey. | 302 Syrian refugees in Istanbul | To examine the association between COVID-19 and changes in mental health in Syrian refugees in Turkey. | July 2020 – September 2020 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Guglielmi 2020 [24] | Mixed methods: cross-sectional survey and qualitative study | Rohingya adolescent refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh | 692 Rohingya and 1069 Bangladeshi adolescents | To explore how intersecting vulnerabilities faced by Rohingya adolescents living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. | May 2020 – June 2020 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hajjar 2021 [25] | Cross-sectional telephone survey with patients from 1 health facility | Syrian refugees in Lebanon | 129 Syrian refugee families. | To assess the burden of COVID-19 by looking at the current living conditions, examining available services provided, and identifying the economic and health challenges of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. | May 2020 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Jones 2022 [26] | Mixed methods: cross-sectional survey and qualitative study | Refugees (Syrian and Palestinian) and vulnerable Jordanian adolescents, Jordan. | 3,311 surveyed total over two waves (2,574 surveyed twice) | To explore the pandemic’s effects on the psychosocial wellbeing and resilience of adolescents affected by forced displacement | October 2018 -January 2021 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Kurt 2021 [27] | Cross-sectional survey | Syrian refugees in Turkey | 345 Syrian refugees | To investigate the role of resource loss, discrimination, and social support on the psychological impacts of COVID-19 related stressors on Syrian refugees in Turkey. | September 2020 -October 2020 | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Lusambili 2020 [28] | Qualitative | Refugees and NGO staff in Kenya | 15 patients and 10 purposively sampled staff | To improve understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on women refugees’ access to and utilisation of antenatal care, delivery and postnatal care in Eastleigh, Kenya | October 2020 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Martuscelli 2020 [29] | Qualitative | Refugees in Brazil | 29 refugees in Brazil | This article assesses how refugees in Brazil were affected by federal responses to the pandemic. | March 2020 - and April 2020 | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Moya 2021 [30] | Cohort (adapted from RCT) | IDP primary caregivers in Tumaco, Colombia | 1376 primary caregivers | To analyse how the pandemic is related to early changes in mental health among caregivers | March 2018 – March 2020 | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Ozer 2022 [31] | Qualitative | IDPs in Burkina Faso | 106 IDPs living in or adjacent to ITSs Burkina Faso | To explore how COVID-19 has affected the lives of IDPs in Burkina Faso | March 2020 - and May 2020 | No | No | No | Yes |
Palattiyil 2022 [32] | Mixed methods: cross-sectional survey and qualitative study | Refugees accessing HIV and TB treatment, Kampala, Uganda | 229 surveyed quantitatively, 26 in-depth interview and 8 key informant interviews | To assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on access to care in 4 health centres for refugee HIV and TB clinic patients in Uganda | August 2021 – October 2021 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Palit 2022 [33] | Cross-sectional | Rohingya refugees with pre-existing health problems in Cox’s Bazar | 732 in the first survey and of those 342 completing the second survey | To examine the impact of the current pandemic on the mental health of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh | July 2019 – November 2020 | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Rodo 2022 [34] | Qualitative | Humanitarian actors working in FCAS (Afghanistan, Colombia, DRC, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh) | 39 key informant interviews (2 donor staff, 2 academics, 34 humanitarian agency staff | To investigate the collateral impact of COVID-19 on funding, services and MNCHN outcomes in FCAS, as well as adaptations used in the field to continue activities | October 2020 – February 2021 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Unver 2022 [35] | Retrospective observational, single-centre cohort study | Refugee adolescents in Turkey referred for inpatient care in a psychiatric facility | 236 pre-pandemic cohort 126 post-pandemics | To examine the impact on admissions to a refugee child mental health outpatient unit of the COVID-19 pandemic | March 2019 – February 2021 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Zambrano- Barrágan 2021 [36] | Qualitative ethnographic study | Venezuelan refugees in Peru and Colombia | 130 Venezuelan migrants and state and non-governmental actors | To understand how COVID-19 has affected access to healthcare among migrants in Latin American cities | July 2020 – September 2020 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |