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Relationship between migration-stressors and self-reported symptoms of depression in an outpatient sample of Vietnamese migrants in Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

T.M.T. Ta
Affiliation:
Charité universitätsmedizin, psychiatry, Berlin, Germany
S. Wolf
Affiliation:
Charité universitätsmedizin, psychiatry, Berlin, Germany
M. Dettling
Affiliation:
Charité universitätsmedizin, psychiatry, Berlin, Germany
E. Hahn
Affiliation:
Charité universitätsmedizin, psychiatry, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

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Introduction

Vietnamese migrants under the influence of migration-related stressors (MRS) represent a vulnerable group within the mental health care system in Germany.

Aims

First study examining the relationship between the quantity of experienced MRS and the severity of self-reported symptoms of depression in a Vietnamese outpatient-sample.

Methods

137 first-generation Vietnamese migrants diagnosed with depression were asked to complete the BDI-II and 24 questions about stressful experiences related to the migration process. Linear regression models was performed to examine the influence of the MRS-quantity on BDI-II total score and on BDI-II subscales (Buckley et al., 2001).

Results

A higher number of experienced MRS was found to be related to a higher BDI-II total score, as well as to a higher score on the cognitive subscale in particular. Regarding the cognitive depression-dimension the BDI-II items pessimism, past failure, guilt feelings, punishment feelings and suicidal thoughts were positively related to the MRS-quantity.

Discussion and conclusion

A dose-response-relationship was found, with a higher number of MRS being related to a higher severity level of self-reported depressiveness as well as to a higher level of cognitive depression-symptoms in particular. The increase in suicidal ideations in the light of MRS-exposure is in line with findings from other migrant populations. Therapeutic interventions may focus (more) on depressive cognitions as a result of recurring MRS-experiences. Special attention should be placed on suicidal thoughts being boosted by MRS.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Mental health care; Mental health policies and migration and mental health of immigrants
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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