Gutmann Maria Teresa, Aysel Metin, Özlü-Erkilic Zeliha, Popow Christian, Akkaya-Kalayci Türkan
1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, General Hospital Baden-Mödling, Fürstenweg 8, 2371 Hinterbrühl, Austria.
2Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Zürich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2019 Sep 10;13:35. doi: 10.1186/s13034-019-0295-y. eCollection 2019.
Compared to their indigenous peers, migrant children and adolescents are at increased risk for mental health problems. The aim of our study was to compare psychological disorders of children and adolescents with Turkish migration background and their native Austrian peers.
We analysed 302 children and adolescents aged between 7 and 18 years. The sample consisted of 100 Austrian and 100 Turkish outpatients with mental health problems, and 102 healthy controls, 52 with Austrian and 50 with Turkish background, recruited from various Viennese local child and youth centres.
Native patients had more frequently externalizing problems (42.1%) compared to the Turkish-speaking sample (28%). However, in the control group, Turkish-speaking children and adolescents had higher levels of internalizing, depressive and anxiety symptoms compared to their native peers.
We found noticeable differences in psychological problems among children and adolescents with and without migration background. We assume that migration-related stress factors are responsible for these differences. Also, children and adolescents with migration background seek for psychological help less frequently than their indigenous peers.
与本地同龄人相比,移民儿童和青少年出现心理健康问题的风险更高。我们研究的目的是比较有土耳其移民背景的儿童和青少年与奥地利本地同龄人的心理障碍情况。
我们分析了302名年龄在7至18岁之间的儿童和青少年。样本包括100名有心理健康问题的奥地利门诊患者和100名有心理健康问题的土耳其门诊患者,以及102名健康对照者,其中52名有奥地利背景,50名有土耳其背景,这些样本均来自维也纳当地不同的儿童和青少年中心。
与讲土耳其语的样本(28%)相比,本地患者出现外化问题的频率更高(42.1%)。然而,在对照组中,讲土耳其语的儿童和青少年与本地同龄人相比,内化、抑郁和焦虑症状水平更高。
我们发现有和没有移民背景的儿童和青少年在心理问题上存在显著差异。我们认为与移民相关的压力因素是造成这些差异的原因。此外,有移民背景的儿童和青少年寻求心理帮助的频率低于本地同龄人。