The phrase "living difficulty" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are describing the hardships an individual or population is experiencing, especially when related to poverty or injustice. For example, "Many communities in Appalachia face a wide range of living difficulties due to systemic oppression."
We used categories of post-migration living difficulty experiences that were empirically derived by Steel and colleagues [ 17] with a sample of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants.
Independent living difficulty is determined if the respondent reports having difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor's office or shopping due to a physical, mental, or emotional condition [ 18, 19, 36].
The change from baseline to each point of follow-up in the average score of the five KOOS subscale scores (KOOS5) covering pain, symptoms, activities of daily living, difficulty in sports and recreational activities, and quality of life are used.
In addition, this younger demographic is facing a variety of financial struggles, like higher costs of living, difficulties in finding work, and they often struggle to save on their own.
Post migration living difficulties contribute further to mental health symptomatology [ 13].
Working and living difficulties favor substance use to cope [ 26, 27] and this substance use could alter in turn physical and mental performances [ 28– 30] and could then increase living difficulties and SA risk.
Information on sample exposure to traumatic events and living difficulties is presented in Tables 1 and 2, respectively.
A recent Australian study compared mental health and living difficulties of asylum seekers holding temporary visas with those having received permanent visas [ 8].
An increase in experienced post-migration living difficulties between T1 and T2 was negatively related to an improvement in PTSD score between both waves (OR = 0.813, p < 0.05).
Among post-migration factors, living difficulties related to employment, social and family networks, dealing with a new culture, and social position show a direct relationship to mental illness among resettled refugees [Lamkaddem et al., submitted].
Additionally, because decisions about ongoing protection are based around risk of future persecution in Iraq, issues relating to living difficulties in Australia, the subject of this research, bear little relevance.
