Factourovich A, Ritsner M, Maoz B, Levin K, Mirsky J, Ginath Y, Segal A, Natan E B
Soroka Medical Center, Psychiatric Department, Beersheba, Israel.
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 1996;33(1):32-9.
The purpose of this study is to examine the psychological distress of Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel and their self-assessed sources of this distress. The subject of this study included 385 (152 men and 233 women) Soviet immigrant physicians who had participated in preparatory licensing courses. The investigation shows that women have higher scores of distress than men in Global Stress Index of the Brief Symptom Inventory and its subscales which reflect anxiety. A comparison of Global Stress Index of the subjects of this study with U.S. and British published non-patient norms shows a significantly higher distress level among the immigrant physicians. Most of the respondents evaluated their psychologic state before immigration to Israel as better (303 or 78.7%). These assessments are found to be directly dependent on the stress load of the respondents at the time of the interview. Perception of the sources of absorption difficulties and distress scores are also found to be in close dependence. The results of the multiple regression analysis indicate that both sex and distress are statistically significant predictors of immigrants' estimation of their difficulties. However, it is the level of distress that has the greatest influence on the assessments of the respondents.
本研究的目的是调查以色列的苏联移民医生的心理困扰及其自我评估的困扰来源。本研究的对象包括385名（152名男性和233名女性）参加过预备执照课程的苏联移民医生。调查显示，在反映焦虑的简明症状量表的总体压力指数及其子量表中，女性的困扰得分高于男性。将本研究对象的总体压力指数与美国和英国公布的非患者常模进行比较，发现移民医生的困扰水平明显更高。大多数受访者（303人或78.7%）认为他们移民到以色列之前的心理状态更好。这些评估被发现直接取决于受访者在访谈时的压力负荷。对融入困难来源的认知和困扰得分也被发现密切相关。多元回归分析的结果表明，性别和困扰在统计学上都是移民对其困难评估的显著预测因素。然而，对受访者评估影响最大的是困扰水平。
