A Study on the Mental Health Status and Cultural Issues Faced by Migrants

Migration is a people movement with enormous challenges for migrant women that influence their mental health. Mental health is a social issue and its determinants need to be accepted for health policy making. This paper reviews and consolidates findings from the alive literature on social determinants of immigrant women's mental health within a socioecological framework. The research focuses on the problems faced by the migrants due to the cultural changes which effects their daily activities and health issues due to variation in weather, etc. Methodology The researcher followed descriptive research design for the study. This study is probability sampling due to the presence of universe. The sampling method adopted is simple random for the present study. The size of the sample was 60 migrants. Tools for data collection Interview schedule was used in the present study for the collection of data from the respondents. Mental health scale PMH scale lutz et al 1992. This study conclude that 60 of the respondents are moderate level of mental health, 23 of the respondents are high level of mental health and 17 of the respondents are low level of mental health. Dr. M. Punitha | Ms. Aiswarya Raj | Ms. Vismaya Raj | Ms. Manjusha. M | Ms. Reeba Susan Raju | Ms. Daisna. P S "A Study on the Mental Health Status and Cultural Issues Faced by Migrants" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-4 , June 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd50277.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/50277/a-study-on-the-mental-health-status-and-cultural-issues-faced-by-migrants/dr-m-punitha