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Library of the School of Health Sciences

2021-03-23

2021

Kotsoglanidi Adamantia-Georgia

Παπαδάτου Δανάη, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Νοσηλευτικής, ΕΚΠΑ (Επιβλέπουσα)
Γιαννοπούλου Ιωάννα, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Κατσαραγάκης Στυλιανός, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Νοσηλευτικής, ΕΚΠΑ

Χαρτογράφηση των ιατρονοσηλευτικών , ψυχοκοινωνικών αναγκών και διαθέσιμων υπηρεσιών για ασυνόδευτους ανήλικους, αιτούντες άσυλο, πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες με χρόνια, απειλητική ή περιοριστική για τη ζωή ασθένεια, που διαμένουν στην Ελλάδα

Greek

Mapping of medical, psychosocial needs and available services for unaccompanied minors, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants with chronic, life-threatening or life-threatening illness, residing in Greece

Over the last decades, both globally and across Europe, there has been an unprecedented increase in the refugee phenomenon due to wars and civil strife that are unfolding in countries in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Among those victims of conflict are underage children, who are often forced to flee on their own, in order to ensure their survival in a safe country. There are cases of unaccompanied children who face serious chronic or life-threatening illnesses from an early age, and whose health condition gravely deteriorates during their journey, or children who have started off healthy and who gradually become ill, due to violent and precarious conditions. In several countries of the European Union, a specialized legal framework has existed for years, under which the competent state social structures for the reception and integration of unaccompanied minor refugees operate. The present study was conducted with the intention of mapping the medical, nursing and psychosocial needs of unaccompanied minors residing in Greece, who have been diagnosed with a chronic, life-threatening or life-threatening illness, and the mapping of all available services for their treatment and support. A design of mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) was chosen for a better and in-depth research. The sample included 31 reference people from all over Greece, who are responsible for the care of 48 children with a chronic or life-threatening illness. The method of concept mapping was used to collect data, via the completion of a questionnaire specially created for the purpose of this study, as well as a semi-structured interview. Before the data collection and after the end of the analysis, two focus groups were held with 11 experts from the refugee field and the pediatric palliative care field, who contributed to both the development and the analysis of the phenomenon under study. The findings of the research showed that the accommodation facilities that host these children have full responsibility for their care, assisted by their cooperation with Guardians. A gap was also found in those children’s access to social security, health, medical care and state health care. It is common to witness an absence of interpreters in the country's hospitals and health centers, as well as an ignorance concerning the referral of children to specialized pediatric palliative care services. The results of the research revealed the non-systematic care and follow-up of unaccompanied minor patients by the National Health Service, who are finally cared for and monitored thanks to the individual initiative, disposition and intention of doctors and nurses of the National Health Service, who, despite the health system’s shortcomings, recognize the rights of sick unaccompanied children. The research results of the present study substantiate a number of proposals to the state and institutions that care for minor children. At the same time, they are raising awareness among the international community about the specificities of health care needed to ensure the quality of life of homeless children suffering from a chronic or serious health problem.

Health Sciences

Unaccompanied refugee minor, Greece, Chronic illness, Life-threatening illness, Life-limited illness, National health system, Pediatric palliative care, Palliative care, Accommodation, Intercultural approach,Interculturalism, Multiculturalism

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