Evidence Database
Switchboard has developed a database of research studies to help refugee service providers in the U.S deliver evidence-based interventions. Studies are added on an ongoing basis. Most studies included in this database are published articles identified in the process of developing Switchboard Evidence Summaries. Use the search area to find content based on criteria like outcome area, intervention, publication year, population, and study type.
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The study examined how adolescents’ individual characteristics and class context are related to bystander behaviors in cases of ethnic victimization. The sample included 1065 adolescents in Sweden (Mage = 13.12, SD = 0.42; 55%males). Female adolescents, adolescents of immigrant background, and adolescents with positive attitudes toward immigrants had greater intentions to defend and comfort victimized peers. Positive inter-ethnic contact norms […]
- Year Published: 2022
- Direction of Evidence: Positive impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Suggestive evidence
Immigrant and minority youth are at risk of experiencing victimization due to their ethnic, cultural, or religious background. Despite an increasing number of studies that aims at understanding the consequences of being the target of such negative experiences, little attention has been paid to the factors that might counteract the occurrence of ethnic victimization. The […]
- Year Published: 2020
- Direction of Evidence: Positive impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Suggestive evidence
To provide information for educators, educational psychologists, school psychologists, and social psychologists, we conducted a quantitative meta-analytic test of n = 50 studies dating from 1995 to 2015 that evaluated the effects of in-school interventions on attitudes toward outgroup members (defined as members of different ethnic or religious backgrounds or different age groups, persons with either physical or […]
- Year Published: 2018
- Intervention(s): Anti-prejudice intervention
- Direction of Evidence: Positive impact
- Strength of Evidence: Strong
- Type of Study: Meta-analysis
Increasing numbers of migrant youth around the world mean growing numbers of heterogeneous school environments in many countries. Contradictory findings regarding the relationship between immigrant school composition (the percentage of immigrant versus non-immigrant students in a school) and adolescent peer violence necessitate further consideration. The current study examined the relationship between immigrant school composition and […]
- Year Published: 2015
- Direction of Evidence: Inconclusive or mixed impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Suggestive evidence
Nowadays, an increasing number of children and adolescents living in Europe have an immigrant background. Because ethnicity is a recognizable characteristic that may become the driver of bullying, these youths are at high risk of victimization. School interventions based on peer-led approaches, assuming all the conditions postulated in contact theory, could be suitable to counteract […]
- Year Published: 2022
- Intervention(s): Anti-prejudice intervention
- Direction of Evidence: Positive impact
- Strength of Evidence: Moderate
- Type of Study: Impact evaluation
Pathways to bystander responses were examined in both generalized and bias-based bul-lying incidents involving immigrant-origin victims. Participants were 168 (Mage = 14.54, 57% female) adolescents of immigrant (37.5%) and nonimmigrant backgrounds, who responded to their likelihood of intervening on behalf of either an Arab or Latine vic-tim. Models tested whether contact with immigrants and one’s […]
- Year Published: 2023
- Intervention(s): Bystander anti-racism
- Direction of Evidence: Positive impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Suggestive evidence
Despite increased research on bullying over the past few decades, researchers still have little understanding of how bullying differentially affects racial and ethnic minority and immigrant youth. To facilitate efforts to better evaluate the impact of bullying among racial and ethnic minority youth and improve interventions, we integrated research from multiple disciplines and conducted a […]
- Year Published: 2020
- Direction of Evidence: Inconclusive or mixed impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Literature review
Background Unaccompanied refugee minors—or unaccompanied minors—are children and adolescents who have been separated from parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult. Unaccompanied minors are a vulnerable population, with numerous stressors and complex psychiatric symptoms necessitating specialized mental health care. This study explores patients’ experiences of a Multimodal Co-Therapy for […]
- Year Published: 2022
- Outcome area(s): Mental Health
- Intervention(s): Multimodal co-therapy
- Direction of Evidence: Inconclusive or mixed impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Suggestive evidence
In the last few years, the number of unaccompanied youths arriving in Europe has increased steadily. During their settlement in host countries, they are exposed to a great variety of vulnerabilities, which have an impact on their mental health. This research examines the effects of participation in a mentoring programme on the psychological and educational […]
- Year Published: 2021
- Outcome area(s): Mentoring
- Intervention(s): Mentoring for improving self-esteem and resilience: Referents
- Direction of Evidence: Inconclusive or mixed impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Suggestive evidence
Unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) are the most vulnerable group of refugees suffering from higher levels of mental health problems. Yet, there is also a group of URM with little or no symptoms or disorders. A major predictor for positive mental health outcomes is the social support network in the post-flight period which has rarely been […]
- Year Published: 2019
- Outcome area(s): Mental Health
- Intervention(s): Social Support as a mental health support strategy
- Direction of Evidence: Inconclusive or mixed impact
- Strength of Evidence: Suggestive
- Type of Study: Suggestive evidence