Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Διεθνής Ιατρική - Διαχείριση Κρίσεων ΥγείαςLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Barbari Athanasia
Supervisors info:
Γεωργόπουλος Σωτήριος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιατρικής, ΕΚΠΑ, Επιβλέπων
Πικουλής Εμμανουήλ, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιατρικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Καραβοκυρός Ιωάννης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιατρικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Μετανάστευση και ο κίνδυνος της σχιζοφρένειας
Translated title:
Migration and the risk of schizophrenia
Summary:
Introduction: Migration, which nowadays has taken huge dimension, is associated with multiple stressors, making the migrant vulnerable to mental health conditions. In the special part of the thesis, a retrospective study was conducted on migrants admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica.
Purpose: The purpose of the literature review is to find the association of migration with psychiatric disorders and schizophrenia in particular. The purpose of retrospective research is to investigate the mental disorders of migrants admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica and compare them with the natives.
Method: For the literature review articles and studies were searched from February 2019 to January 2020 in databases like Pubmed, Google Scholar, Scopus and statistics and official reports in the websites of World Health Organization, International Organization for Migration and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. For the retrospective study, the medical records of migrants’ patients for 2017 and 2018 and a control group of native patents were studied.
Results: The literature review has shown that migrants are more likely to have a variety of mental disorders and schizophrenia as well, in comparison with the general population. The retrospective study has shown that migrants had statistically significant differences compared to their natives, concerning certain socio-demographic data, diagnosis, and clinical features of the disease.
Conclusions: Migrants are a highly burdened population, with a strong heterogeneity, and should be treated as such in terms of mental health needs. Finally, surveys need to be expanded. Particularly for Greece, epidemiological data on the mental health of migrants are limited.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Immigration, Migration, Schizophrenia, Mental disorders, Migrants, Mental health
