Offshore detention: cross-sectional analysis of the health of children and young people seeking asylum in Australia

Lahiru Amarasena; Nora Samir; Louise Sealy; Nan Hu; Mohammad Reza Rostami; David Isaacs; Hasantha Gunasekera; Helen Young; Rishi Agrawal; David Levitt; Joshua R. Francis; Jacinta Coleman; Sarah Mares; Penny Larcombe; Sarah Cherian; Shanti Raman; Raghu Lingam; Karen Zwi

doi:10.1136/archdischild-2022-324442

Offshore detention: cross-sectional analysis of the health of children and young people seeking asylum in Australia

Lahiru Amarasena, Nora Samir, Louise Sealy, Nan Hu, Mohammad Reza Rostami, David Isaacs, Hasantha Gunasekera, Helen Young, Rishi Agrawal, David Levitt, Joshua R. Francis, Jacinta Coleman, Sarah Mares, Penny Larcombe, Sarah Cherian, Shanti Raman, Raghu Lingam, Karen Zwi

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ObjectiveTo describe the health and well-being of children and young people (CYP) seeking asylum subjected to Australia's immigration policy of indefinite mandatory detention on Nauru. DesignCross-sectional analysis of a cohort of CYP seeking asylum. SettingAustralian paediatric clinicians from 10 health services completed detailed health assessments around the time of transfer from Nauru, mostly to Australia. ParticipantsSixty-two CYP who were = 4 years. The vast majority of CYP had physical health (n=55, 89%) and mental health (n=49, 79%) concerns including self-harm or suicidal ideation/attempt (n=28, 45%). Mental health concerns were more likely in CYP who were school-aged (p=0.001), had been held on Nauru for >= 1 year (p=0.01); originated from the Eastern Mediterranean region (p= 4 refugee-specific adverse childhood experiences (p

Original language	English
Article number	324442
Pages (from-to)	185-191
Number of pages	7
Journal	Archives of Disease in Childhood
Volume	108
Issue number	3
Early online date	22 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-324442
Publication status	Published - Mar 2023

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Amarasena, L., Samir, N., Sealy, L., Hu, N., Rostami, M. R., Isaacs, D., Gunasekera, H., Young, H., Agrawal, R., Levitt, D., Francis, J. R., Coleman, J., Mares, S., Larcombe, P., Cherian, S., Raman, S., Lingam, R., & Zwi, K. (2023). Offshore detention: cross-sectional analysis of the health of children and young people seeking asylum in Australia. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 108(3), 185-191. Article 324442. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-324442

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