Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey.

Background: Existing research on refugee mental health is heavily skewed towards refugees in high-income countries, even though most refugees (83%) are hosted in low-income and middle-income countries. This problem is further compounded by the unrepresentativeness of samples, small sample sizes and low response rates.

Objective: To present representative findings on the prevalence and correlates of depression among different refugee subgroups in East Africa.