Including highly educated migrants in academia to improve their health-protocol for a pilot intervention.

IF 3 3区 医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Frontiers in Public Health Pub Date : 2024-10-28 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1347992
Khadra Yasien Ahmed, Lars T Fadnes, Bernadette Kumar, Wegdan Hasha, Esperanza Diaz
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Introduction: Norway's healthcare system needs a diversified work force to meet societal demands for improved cultural competence. However, many migrants in Norway who were educated as health professions in their home countries are not practicing these professions. This may negatively affect their physical and mental health and hinder their personal social integration. Though good health is often seen as a precondition for work, relevant working activities can also improve health. However, including health professionals with foreign education in academic institutions prior to receiving necessary accreditation is a complex task. This study will pilot an intervention aiming to improve health through meaningful integration of these professionals in academic environments.

Materials and methods: This paper is a protocol for a non-randomized pilot intervention study targeting migrants who are waiting for their health education accreditation in Norway. To test the benefits of meaningful activity on health and explore possibilities for implementing such activity, we have designed a six-month long intervention consisting of including nurses, doctors, and other highly educated migrants with healthcare backgrounds between 20 and 67 years of age, into health-related working tasks, at two higher education institutions in Bergen, Norway. The intervention will be tailored according to the participant's expertise. This hybrid type 2 pilot protocol paper will present how feasibility, fidelity, dose received (satisfaction), and dose of exposure (participation), will be assessed and whether the intervention is experienced as beneficial for the participants' health as primary outcome utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Conclusion: We present a complex, personalized intervention that has the potential for large scale implementation in the future. By thoroughly presenting our designed intervention and assessment methods, this protocol will add to the study's transparency and facilitate replicability and comparison with future studies. This study will be of benefit to the migrants themselves, policy makers, government agencies and academia at large as it can point to a unique and sustainable way of speeding up the integration of highly educated migrants in their respective fields in a new host country.

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将受过高等教育的移民纳入学术界,以改善他们的健康状况--试点干预方案。
导言:挪威的医疗保健系统需要一支多元化的工作队伍,以满足社会对提高文化能力的要求。然而,挪威许多在本国接受过卫生专业教育的移民并没有从事这些专业。这可能会对他们的身心健康造成负面影响,并阻碍他们融入社会。虽然良好的健康状况通常被视为工作的先决条件,但相关的工作活动也能改善健康状况。然而,让受过外国教育的卫生专业人员在获得必要的资格认证之前进入学术机构是一项复杂的任务。本研究将试行一项干预措施,旨在通过让这些专业人员切实融入学术环境来改善健康状况:本文是一项非随机试点干预研究的方案,研究对象是正在挪威等待卫生教育认证的移民。为了检验有意义的活动对健康的益处,并探索开展此类活动的可能性,我们设计了一项为期六个月的干预措施,包括在挪威卑尔根市的两所高等教育机构中,让护士、医生和其他受过高等教育、年龄在 20 岁至 67 岁之间、具有医疗保健背景的移民参与到与健康相关的工作任务中。干预措施将根据参与者的专长量身定制。这篇混合型 2 类试点方案论文将介绍如何利用定量和定性方法评估可行性、忠实性、接受剂量(满意度)和接触剂量(参与),以及干预是否对参与者的健康有益这一主要结果:结论:我们提出了一种复杂的个性化干预措施,有可能在未来大规模实施。通过全面介绍我们设计的干预措施和评估方法,本方案将增加研究的透明度,并促进与未来研究的可复制性和可比较性。这项研究将使移民本身、政策制定者、政府机构和整个学术界受益,因为它可以指出一种独特而可持续的方法,加快受过高等教育的移民在新东道国融入其各自领域的进程。
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Frontiers in Public Health
Frontiers in Public Health Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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期刊介绍: Frontiers in Public Health is a multidisciplinary open-access journal which publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research and is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians, policy makers and the public worldwide. The journal aims at overcoming current fragmentation in research and publication, promoting consistency in pursuing relevant scientific themes, and supporting finding dissemination and translation into practice. Frontiers in Public Health is organized into Specialty Sections that cover different areas of research in the field. Please refer to the author guidelines for details on article types and the submission process.
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