RT Journal Article
T1 Demand for psychiatric emergency services and immigration. Findings in a Spanish hospital during the year 2003
T2 Necesidades de servicios de emergencia psiquiátrica e inmigración. Hallazgos en un hospital español durante el año 2003
A1 Quintero Gutiérrez Del Álamo, Francisco Javier
A1 Basurte Villamor, Ignacio
A1 Saiz González, María Dolores
A1 Perez-Rodriguez, M Mercedes
A1 Baca-Garcia, Enrique
A1 Gonzalez, Gloria
A1 Botillo, Carlota
A1 Sevilla, Juncal
A1 Gonzalez de Rivera, Jose L.
AB Background: The aim of this study is to investigate differences among immigrants and natives regarding access and pathways to psychiatric care, psychiatric admission rates, length of stay, continuity of care, and main diagnoses. Methods: Psychiatric emergency visits (1511) and hospitalizations (410) were registered in a Spanish Hospital with a catchment area of 280 000 people (19.3% immigrants) during the year 2003. Motives for demanding emergency psychiatric care, pathways to care, admission rates, length of stay, continuity of care, and main diagnoses were compared among natives and immigrants. Results: Immigrants accounted for 13.0% of consultations to the psychiatric emergency room (15.9% of patients) and 11.0% of admissions to the psychiatric hospitalization unit (13.5% of patients). The pathways to care were different for immigrants and natives. Immigrants had a lower rate of readmission to the psychiatric emergency room. Motives for consultation and hospitalization were also different among immigrants and natives. Immigrants showed more self-aggressive behaviours and neuroses, and lower rates of affective disorders and psychoses. Conclusions: Immigrants under-used psychiatric emergency and hospitalization services in comparison with natives. They did not consult because of psychoses or affective disorders, but mainly because of reactive conditions related to the stress of migration.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 1101-1262
YR 2004
FD 2004-12-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95566
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95566
LA eng
NO Perez-Rodriguez MM, Baca-Garcia E, Quintero-Gutierrez FJ, Gonzalez G, Saiz-Gonzalez D, Botillo C, Basurte-Villamor I, Sevilla J, Gonzalez de Rivera JL. Demand for psychiatric emergency services and immigration. Findings in a Spanish hospital during the year 2003. Eur J Public Health. 2006 Aug;16(4):383-7. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckl021. Epub 2006 Mar 8. PMID: 16524938.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 14 jun 2025