title: [Maintenance treatment in opioid-dependent patients with migration background].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  No regional analyses regarding opioid-dependent patients in maintenance treatment with a migration background have so far been performed in German-speaking countries.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study examined patients with and without a migration background regarding socioeconomic parameters, characteristics of dependency and attitude towards opiate maintenance treatment (OMT).
  
  
  METHODS
  From May to October 2011 patients in OMT from all of the 20 psychiatry clinics and 110 physician practices in Berlin with a licence to provide OMT were included in this analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of the 986 participating patients, 956 gave information on migration background and of these, 204 (21.3 %) originated from a country other than Germany. Compared to patients without a migration background, their participation in a maintenance program was significantly shorter and they more often expressed a desire to end OMT and wanted a limited duration of OMT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The differences regarding duration of OMT and the wish to end OMT can reflect a stronger desire for abstinence and a different attitude towards maintenance treatment of patients with a migration background.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Große Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115, Berlin, Deutschland. lena-karoline.bald@charite.de.
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Bald
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Große Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schouler-Ocak
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Große Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Penka
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Große Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Schoofs
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Große Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Häbel
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Große Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bermpohl
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Große Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gutwinski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001604:Berlin; D032882:Comprehension; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D057220:Health Literacy; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058850:Opiate Substitution Treatment; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D013695:Temperance / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Abstinence; Migration background; Opioid dependency; Opioid maintenance therapy; Understanding of dependency