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1422 – Culture Sensitive Analysis Of Psychosomatic Complaints In Migrants In Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

I. Bermejo ,
L. Kristion ,
L.P. Hölzel  and
M. Härter
I. Bermejo
Affiliation:
Celenus Kliniken GmbH, Offenburg
L. Kristion
Affiliation:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg
L.P. Hölzel
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
M. Härter
Affiliation:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg

Abstract

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Background

To ensure an adequate health care of migrants, differentiated information on the association of cultural background and migration related factors and psychosomatic complaints are necessary.

Method

Cross-sectional questionnaire based survey regarding psychosomatic complaints of migrants from Turkey (n = 77), Italy (n = 95), and Spain (n = 67) and ethnic German resettled from the states of the former Soviet Union (n = 196). Questionnaires distributed by non-health specific counselling agencies of welfare associations.

Results

The cultural background was a relevant factor for psychosomatic complaints, showing Turkish and ethnic German resettled migrants a higher likeliness, also compared to a sample of age corresponding Germans. Whereas Spanish and Italian migrants showed a lower risk for psychosomatic complaints. Also gender, feeling unwell in Germany and fatalism showed a significant association with psychosomatic complaints.

Conclusion

Migrants in Germany do not have per se a higher risk for psychosomatic complaints. A distinct differentiation by cultural background is necessary.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E745
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2013
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