title: Human Rights of Asylum Seekers with Psychosocial Disabilities in Europe.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The migrants crossing the Mediterranean towards Europe have dramatically been increased in 2015 as the number of incidents and deaths.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This editorial summarizes the results of our work and highlights some critical aspects that hinder the care to asylum seekers with stress disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  Screening for mental disorders was performed in all migrants joint three camps in Sardinia (January-September 2015) using K6, Short Screening Scale for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and with an interview. Positives were evaluated by psychiatrists and if they needed, have been treated and evaluated at the start of treatment and three months later.
  
  
  RESULTS
  22.1% of the sample, (22.6% female, 38.5±12.9 years) were positive for at least one screener; 8.7%, (24% female) had a diagnosis of depressive or bipolar DSM5 disorders and 7.6%, (25% female) of PTSD. After three months of treatment: 51 treated people (26.8%) had left the camps. 53.1% of those remaining declared had relatives in northern Europe that they wanted to reach. Only 8.3% showed a significant clinical improvement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical improvement was dramatically poor in people who stay in the camps. Dissatisfaction and feeling they could not join relatives may have had a negative impact. In PTSD, with the experience of torture and seeing family members killed, staying with surviving relatives in stable conditions would be an important part of treatment. From this point of view the UE Dublin Regulation seems not to be in agreement with the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, SS554 Monserrato (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy.
authors.forename: Mauro Giovanni
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Carta
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, SS554 Monserrato (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy; Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, United States.
authors.forename: Maria Francesca
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Moro
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, SS554 Monserrato (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Preti
authors.affiliation: Emden University, Germany.
authors.forename: Jutta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lindert
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Dinesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhugra
authors.affiliation: Mattias Angermeyer Center for Public Mental Health, Gosim, Austria.
authors.forename: Mattias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Angermeyer
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, SS554 Monserrato (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy.
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vellante
keywords: Asylum seekers; Europe; Mood disorders; PTSD; UN CRPD