TY - JOUR AU - Oppedal, Brit AU - Keles, Serap AU - Cheah, Charissa AU - Røysamb, Espen PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/06 TI - Culture competence and mental health across different immigrant and refugee groups JO - BMC Public Health SP - 292 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Over the last decades, due to high rates of immigration, many high-income countries have witnessed demographic shifts towards more cultural diversity in the population. Socio-economic deprivation and traumatic experiences pre-migration contribute to a high risk for mental health problems among immigrant background youth. Moreover, when adapting to the multi-cultural contexts of the resettlement countries they face several acculturation demands, which may also affect their mental health in adaptive or hazardous ways. One of these acculturation tasks involves developing the cultural competence necessary to thrive and participate socially within the heritage and the majority cultural domains. From a public mental health perspective, it is important to have thorough knowledge about acculturation-related risk and protective factors. However, this responsibility has been challenged by a lack of acculturation measures that are theoretically linked to mental health, and target the cultural competencies of immigrant background youth. Therefore, the current study aimed at examining if a construct of peer-related culture competence, operationalized in the Youth Culture Competence Scale (YCCS), captured the same competence-phenomenon across different language, age, and immigrant groups in two immigrant-receiving countries. The scale includes two dimensions: one of heritage, and one of majority peer-related culture competence. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8398-1 DO - 10.1186/s12889-020-8398-1 ID - Oppedal2020 ER -