Intrigues of Accessing Mental Health Services Among Urban Refugees Living in Kenya: The Case of Somali Refugees Living in Eastleigh, Nairobi. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mutiso, Victoria; Warsame, Abdulkadir Hussein; Bosire, Edna; Musyimi, Christine; Musau, Abednego; Isse, Maimuna Mohamud; Ndetei, David M.
• Is Part Of: Journal of immigrant & refugee studies. Volume 17:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 204
• Page End: 221
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Somali refugees -- Kenya -- barriers -- access -- mental health care -- primary health care; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Social work with immigrants -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.8753097305
• DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2018.1433904
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1556-2948

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article explores the perceived mental-health-care access barriers affecting the resettled refugee population in Eastleigh, Kenya. Findings suggest that the main barriers to accessing mental health care are cultural and religious beliefs, inadequate health services, culture-insensitive mental health services, poverty, language barriers, stigma, and discrimination. This study recommends that it is important to integrate Somalis' indigenous methods of treatment of mental illnesses into Western methods of treatment in Kenya to provide a wide spectrum of mental help to refugees.