Review article The mental health of Indigenous peoples in Canada: A critical review of research

Many scholars have argued that indigenous peoples of the world have an imbalanced burden of mental illness. Studies have shown that colonialism and related processes are important determinants of international indigenous peoples' health. In Canada, a number of health surveys record unequal morbidity and mortality rates of indigenous peoples, but relatively few studies focus on mental health. This article provides a critical review of Canadian literature on indigenous mental health. From 2006 to 2016, we searched 11 databases and 2 journals on Indigenous Health for research on mental health, indigenous peoples and Canada. The review contains over 200 papers and is coded according to research topics, population groups, and geographical locations. The results show that although the majority of literature focuses on issues related to morbidity and causes of psychosis between colonialism and Canadian indigenous peoples in mental health services, there are several large gaps It is. Mental health research related to Canadian indigenous people highlighted the use of suicide and problematic materials and suggests a more critical use of the concept of colonialism and historical trauma. And indigenous people in cities and unreserved areas. These findings are useful in international context by providing discussion, dialogue, and further research on mental health research of indigenous peoples around the world.

This article focuses on literature on mental health of Canadian indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples offer 370 million people to the population of more than 70 countries in the world (World Health Organization, 2007) and have different names throughout the world. Many scholars strongly believe that indigenous peoples around the world suffer from an unequal burden of mental illness. According to several studies colonialism and its related processes have been seen as playing an important role in judging the health status of international indigenous peoples. This survey was conducted because there was not much research on the mental health of Canadian indigenous peoples.

Many scholars have argued that indigenous peoples of the world have an imbalanced burden of mental illness. Studies have shown that colonialism and related processes are important determinants of international indigenous peoples' health. In Canada, a number of health surveys record unequal morbidity and mortality rates of indigenous peoples, but relatively few studies focus on mental health. This article provides a critical review of Canadian literature on indigenous mental health. From 2006 to 2016, we searched 11 databases and 2 journals on Indigenous Health for research on mental health, indigenous peoples and Canada. The review contains over 200 papers and is coded according to research topics, population groups, and geographical locations.

This paper introduces the results of scoping review focusing on the relationship between residence experience and mental health in Canadian immigrants. Arskey and O'Malley define scoping comments as "quickly designed to quickly map key concepts in the field of research and available main sources of information and evidence" (page 5 ). This approach is considered to be the most appropriate as it is systematic and can be used for other scoping reviews to derive extensive findings and to investigate the health of immigrants and refugees . The purpose of this review is consistent with the purpose of Arskey and O'Malley, (i) the scope, scope, nature of research activities (ii) summary and dissemination of research outcomes, and (iii) identification of research gaps in the literature . For the purpose of this review, we have no distinction between immigrants and refugees.