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. 2020 Dec 24;9(1):13.
doi: 10.3390/healthcare9010013.

Results of Mentoring in the Psychosocial Well-Being of Young Immigrants and Refugees in Spain

Anna Sánchez-Aragón  1 , Angel Belzunegui-Eraso  1   2 , Òscar Prieto-Flores  3
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Results of Mentoring in the Psychosocial Well-Being of Young Immigrants and Refugees in Spain

Anna Sánchez-Aragón et al. Healthcare (Basel). .

Abstract

This study examined the change processes associated with the Nightingale project, a community-based mentoring programme whose aim is to promote the social inclusion of minors of immigrant origin. A pre-test-post-test study was conducted on a group of 158 young immigrants between the ages of 8 and 15, in which the influence of the mentoring programme on the youths' psychosocial well-being was measured. Non-parametric tests were used to calculate the results before and after mentoring, comparing the results over a six-month period and controlling for sex and age. The analyses reflected associations between mentoring and improvements in specific aspects of the emotional well-being of young immigrants and highlighted the potential of mentorships to cushion the stressful events they are subjected to in the process of adapting to a new social reality.

Keywords: acculturative stress; immigrants; psychosocial well-being; social inclusion; youth health; youth mentoring.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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