ArticleBMC psychiatry2016
What are the barriers to access to mental healthcare and the primary needs of asylum seekers? A survey of mental health caregivers and primary care workers.
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- Experiences and Perceived Barriers of Asylum Seekers and People with Refugee Backgrounds in Accessing Healthcare Services in Romania.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Non-European immigrants' self-described strategies for mental health promotion and perceptions of Finnish mental health services: A qualitative descriptive analysis.Perspectives in psychiatric care · 2022Article
- Working With Burmese Patients: Understanding Historical and Cultural Contexts to Improve Health Care Access and Health Status.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2022Article
- Cross-cultural training program on mental health care for refugees - a mixed method evaluation.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Negative impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health service access and follow-up adherence for immigrants and individuals in socio-economic difficulties.Public health · 2020Article
- Barriers to access to outpatient mental health care for refugees and asylum seekers in Switzerland: the therapist's view.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to assess the opinion of primary care workers, social workers, translators and mental health caregivers who work with asylum seekers about the latter's unmet needs and barriers to access to mental healthcare.
methodsWe used a Likert scale to assess the opinion of 135 primary care workers (general practitioners, nurses, social workers and translators) and mental health caregivers about the proportion of asylum seekers with psychiatric disorders, their priority needs and their main barriers to mental health services.
resultsInsufficient access to adequate financial resources, poor housing and security conditions, access to employment, professional training and legal aid were considered as priority needs, as were access to dental and mental healthcare. The main barriers to access to mental healthcare for asylum seekers included a negative representation of psychiatry, fear of being stigmatized by their own community and poor information about existing psychiatric services.
conclusionsWe found a good correlation between the needs reported by healthcare providers and those expressed by the asylum-seeking population in different studies. We discuss the need for greater mobility and accessibility to psychiatric services among this population.
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