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This study aims to understand how refugee parents perceive and respond to their children's posttrauma distress in low-resource settings.

Post-resettlement context matters: a qualitative study of refugee parents’ responses to child trauma in low-resource settings

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Qualitative study explores refugee parents' challenges in addressing children's posttrauma needs, highlighting the role of resource limitations.

This study aims to understand how refugee parents perceive and respond to their children's posttrauma distress in low-resource settings.
Conducted semi-structured interviews and questionnaires with thirty refugee parents from deprived Iranian communities.
Participants included parents primarily from Afghanistan, most of whom reported at least moderate PTSD symptoms.
Thematic analysis was used to analyze the interview data.
Parents demonstrated a lack of understanding regarding their child's trauma-related difficulties, causing uncertainty in providing emotional support.
Ongoing post-resettlement stressors significantly reduced parents' coping capacity, leading to harsher, reactive parenting.
Material deprivation influenced parent-child dynamics, with children often taking on caregiving roles and withholding trauma-related issues to avoid healthcare expenses.

Rajabi et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Qualitative study explores refugee parents' challenges in addressing children's posttrauma needs, highlighting the role of resource limitations.