Factors that sustain indigenous youth mentoring programs: a qualitative systematic review.

Background: Indigenous youth worldwide continue to experience disproportional rates of poorer mental health and well-being compared to non-Indigenous youth. Mentoring has been known to establish favorable outcomes in many areas of health but is still in its early phases of research within Indigenous contexts. This paper explores the barriers and facilitators of Indigenous youth mentoring programs to improve mental health outcomes and provides evidence for governments' response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

How religion, language and ethnicity impact perioperative nursing care.

Religion, language, and ethnicity play important roles in the perioperative arena. This article highlights some of the challenges that religion, language, and ethnicity can present and offers strategies for making the experience as positive as possible for all patients.