The mental health, quality of life and life satisfaction of internally displaced persons living in Nakuru County, Kenya: a critique
The study titled ‘[t] he mental health, quality of life and life satisfaction of internally displaced persons living in Nakuru County, Kenya’ by Getanda, Papadopoulos and Evans identifies a critical area and contributed significantly to literature. Despite the contribution, there are some issues i...
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11176-y http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4516 |
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| Summary: | The study titled ‘[t] he mental health, quality of life and life satisfaction of internally displaced persons living in
Nakuru County, Kenya’ by Getanda, Papadopoulos and Evans identifies a critical area and contributed significantly
to literature. Despite the contribution, there are some issues in that study that deserve attention. For example, the
use of the satisfaction with life scale instead of the temporal satisfaction with life scale, for a pre-and post displacement study, is questionable. It is important to note that the scores from the satisfaction with life scale can
only measure life satisfaction at a particular point while the temporal satisfaction with life can be used to determine
life satisfaction between pre-and post-displacement periods. Again, conflicting statements in the abstract and
methods sections have been noted, where the abstract refers to refugee camps while methods refer to internally
displaced persons’ camps. Finally, some reported statistics have been found to have errors. It is important to
highlight these critical issues to readers for a better understanding. This study, therefore, endeavours to critique that
study and clarify some of these issues so that readers get better understandings. Recommendations for future
studies are made. |
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