Refugees experience poorer health outcomes especially which can be exacerbated by or can be a result of low health literacy of refugee populations. To address poor health outcomes, health literacy, and health usage in refugee populations, it is essential to develop health educational interventions for refugees’ healthcare integration. To do so, learning objectives must be identified based on refugees’ health knowledge gaps. Therefore, the overall aim of this study is to identify these knowledge gaps. A modified Delphi method was employed for this study with three rounds of survey: the first to identify learning objectives, the second to prioritise learning objectives, and the third to categorise the learning objectives as not recommended, partially recommended, or highly recommended. An overarching theme of utilising the healthcare system and its various services effectively and efficiently was recognised to be an important learning objective for educational interventions to address refugees’ health integration. Overall, learning objectives within the theme self-care and preventative health were ranked as most important.
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Harjani, M. G., Stathakarou, N., Konstantinidis, S. T., Dratsiou, I., Varella, A., Salcedo, V. T., Segura Segura, M., Tsoupouroglou, I., Bamidis, P. D., & Karlgren, K. (2024). Identifying the Health Educational Needs of Refugees: Empirical Evidence from a Delphi Study. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 26, 984-997. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-024-01626-1
Accepted: 14 August 2024; First Online: 5 September 2024; : ; : The authors declare no conflict of interest. This study was co-funded by the Erasmus + programme under the project: Refugees’ Health Integration (ReHIn): 2019–1-SE01-KA204-060563.; : Ethical approval for this study was obtained by the Bioethics Committee of the School of Medicine at AUTH: 5.168.18/12/2019.
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