[Significant barriers to attendance of outpatient psychosocial care facilities for Turkish migrant families from their own point of view].
In family interviews with 77 families migrated from Turkey, reasons for the low rate of attendance in psychiatric institutions were investigated. The reasons that came up were a preference for intra-family solutions in cases of behavior disorders as well as a lack of information, but not a preponderance of traditional magical approaches. A comparison of families attending a mother-tongue outpatient service with non-attendants failed to demonstrate more intra-family resources in the latter. Families proposed to spread information via ethnic communities and to establish mother-tongue facilities. Since the beginning of such a service a systematic increase in attendance rates was recorded.
Schepker
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Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters Rheinische Kliniken Essen/Institut an der Universität-GH Essen.
Toker
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M
Eberding
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A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003469:Culture; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology