• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

information for practice

news, new scholarship & more from around the world


advanced search
  • gary.holden@nyu.edu
  • @ Info4Practice
  • Archive
  • About
  • Help
  • Browse Key Journals
  • RSS Feeds

Ethnic and migrational impact on the clinical manifestation of depression

Abstract

Purpose  

Depressive disorders are still underdiagnosed. Ethnic and cultural factors may influence the way depression is presented and
therefore contribute to problems in assessing these disorders in different ethnic populations appropriately. In this investigation,
the impact of both ethnicity and migration on the manifestation of depression was studied.

Methods  

Three groups of depressed female patients (n = 136) were included in this investigation on the variation in depressive symptomatology by ethnic groups. Group 1 consisted
of Austrian patients living in Austria, group 2 were Turkish patients who had migrated to Austria and group 3 were Turkish
patients living in Turkey. Participants were rated using the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), the Beck Depression
Inventory (BDI), the Bradford Somatic Inventory (BSI) and an additional list of physical symptoms.

Results  

Both Turkish groups had significantly higher BSI scores and more somatic symptom severity. Migrated Turkish patients scored
significantly higher in the items headache, backache and dry mouth than Turkish patients in Turkey. In addition, there were
between-group differences in non-physical symptoms.

Conclusions  

Depressive symptomatology varies between ethnic groups. These differences are mainly due to ethnicity as such but migration
may play an additional role. It is essential for physicians to be aware of atypical presentation forms of depression in minority
groups.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original Paper
  • Pages 1-9
  • DOI 10.1007/s00127-011-0417-1
  • Authors
    • Eberhard A. Deisenhammer, Department of General Psychiatry, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    • Müberra Çoban-Başaran, Department of General Psychiatry, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    • Atıl Mantar, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Dokuz Eylül University, 35340 Balçova, İzmir, Turkey
    • Regina Prunnlechner, Department of General Psychiatry, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    • Georg Kemmler, Department of General Psychiatry, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    • Tunç Alkın, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Dokuz Eylül University, 35340 Balçova, İzmir, Turkey
    • Hartmann Hinterhuber, Department of General Psychiatry, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    • Journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    • Online ISSN 1433-9285
    • Print ISSN 0933-7954
Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 08/01/2011 | Link to this post on IFP |
Share

Primary Sidebar

Categories

Category RSS Feeds

  • Calls & Consultations
  • Clinical Trials
  • Funding
  • Grey Literature
  • Guidelines Plus
  • History
  • Infographics
  • Journal Article Abstracts
  • Meta-analyses - Systematic Reviews
  • Monographs & Edited Collections
  • News
  • Open Access Journal Articles
  • Podcasts
  • Video

© 1993-2023 Dr. Gary Holden. All rights reserved.

gary.holden@nyu.edu
@Info4Practice