Searching for depression and psychological distress in the migrant: Part B. The article based on the depression and psychological distress in the migrant AND Malaysia

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Part A.
Search of given article
The article based on the depression and psychological distress in the migrant was
searched through Google scholar by typing the key term “depression”, “psychological”, “migrant
AND Malaysia”, migrant AND Saudi Arabia. Some parameters like recent studies and peer
reviewed journal was set while searching in Google scholar. The two most relevant articles
found was by the Nadim et al. (2016) and, Noor and Shaker (2017).
Summary of the article
Study by Nadim et al. (2016) focus on the analysis of depression observed among the
migrant worker in the country of Saudi Arabia. The author is aiming to determine the occurrence
of despair who have been migrated to Saudi Arabia by conducting a cross sectional survey.
Author has included 400 migrants worker and conducted the research in Al- Qassim region. The
main scope of the study was to assess the connection between their duration of stay in Saudi
Arabia and their condition of living.
Study of Noor and Shaker (2017) is based on the psychological distress that migrant
worker face from Indonesia face in Malaysia due to the discrimination they face in their
workplace. The author has conducted a qualitative study and included 119 Indonesian migrants’
workers. It is evident that Malaysia has the highest number of migrants in the Southeast Asia and
the main scope of the research by the author was to evaluate their working condition and the
discrimination they face in the workplace. The main rationale for conduction of the research was
to find way to remove the cultural barrier.

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Search of other article
Other three articles was also searched using Google scholar. In order to find the article
which is based on the experience of migrant workers in workplace, specific key term was used,
“Migrants”, “Workplace”, “experience”, “psychology”. Time period was set from 2015 to search
the recent article. Peer reviewed article was marked while searching it. Many of the relevant
article was found but only English and full text article was only included. Therefore, study by
Cheo (2017), Wang et al. (2015) and, Mucci et al. (2019) was selected which was meeting their
inclusion criteria.
Summary of the article
The study by Cheo (2017) is related to the migrant worker and workplace bullying in the
urban china. The study aims to find the choice of the people related to education, long stay in
company, region of workplace and intensity of work pose an impact on the their bullying
experience. The author has done survey analysis by including the 768 migrant’s worker working
in the urban city of China.
The study by Wang et al. (2018) aims to investigate on the perceived stress that links the
relationship between the discrimination and psychological distress. The researcher has included
the migrant children worker of China. The study has done survey analysis by including 813
middle school students. The finding of the paper has clearly argued that for migrant children
worker suffers from huge psychological distress which needs to be consider by giving social
support to them.
The study by Mucci et al. (2019) has comprehensively studied on the migrants with
objective to find the occupational risk and related health disease faced by them in working in the

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culturally different environment. Author has conducted a systematic review by searching articles
on different database and included 62 articles. The main finding of the paper is that migrants
basically face infectious disease and cardiovascular disease which is caused by their low living
condition in other country.