ArticleBMC family practice2006
Somatisation: illness perspectives of asylum seeker and refugee patients from the former country of Yugoslavia.
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- A Clinical-Psychological Perspective on Somatization Among Immigrants: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Refugee experiences of general practice in countries of resettlement: a literature review.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2015Review
- Somatization in refugees: a review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Review
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- Multimorbidity in adult asylum seekers: a first overview.PloS one · 2013Article
- Perceptions of health and diabetes in a Melbourne South Sudanese community.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2011Article
- Reproductive health care for asylum-seeking women - a challenge for health professionals.BMC public health · 2010Article
- "They think we're OK and we know we're not". A qualitative study of asylum seekers' access, knowledge and views to health care in the UK.BMC health services research · 2007Article
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Abstract
backgroundSomatisation is particularly challenging in multicultural contexts where patients and physicians often differ in terms of their illness-related beliefs and practices and health care expectations. This paper reports on a exploratory study aimed at better understanding how asylum seeker and refugee patients from the former country of Yugoslavia who were identified by their physicians as somatising make sense of their suffering.
methodsWe conducted semi-structured interviews with 26 asylum seeker and refugee patients from the former country of Yugoslavia who attended the general medicine outpatient clinic of a Swiss teaching Hospital and were identified as presenting with somatisation. Interviews explored patients' illness perspectives and health care expectations. Interviews were audio taped, transcribed verbatim and analyzed to identify key themes in patients' narratives.
resultsPatients attributed the onset of symptoms to past traumatic experiences and tended to attribute their persistence to current living conditions and uncertain legal status. Patients formulated their suffering in both medical and social/legal terms, and sought help from physicians for both types of problems.
conclusionAwareness of how asylum seeker and refugee patients make sense of their suffering can help physicians to better understand patients' expectations of the clinical encounter, and the particular nature and constraints of the patient-provider relationship in the context of asylum.
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