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During the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-existing inequalities have been compounded among refugee adolescents in Jordan, who experience increased stress and high rates of depression

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Young adolescent Syrian girl and her brother living in an informal tented settlement in Jordan

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Credit: Nathalie Bertrams & Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE), CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-existing inequalities have been compounded among refugee adolescents in Jordan, who experience increased stress and high rates of depression

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261773

Article Title: Compounding inequalities: Adolescent psychosocial wellbeing and resilience among refugee and host communities in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Author Countries: U.K., U.S.A., Palestine, Pakistan, Jordan

Funding: Funding was received from the Research and Evaluation Division of the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) longitudinal study. In addition, supplementary funding was provided by BMGF through the EMERGE PROJECT: OPP1163682 and INV018007 and Research Grants on Women, Victimization, and COVID-19 (# INV-003527). Dr Sarah Baird is the recipient of the latter. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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