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Acculturation strategies and severity of depression among Vietnamese migrants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M.H. Nguyen ,
E. Hahn ,
R. Burian ,
M. Dettling ,
A. Diefenbacher  and
T.M.T. Ta
M.H. Nguyen
Affiliation:
Charité - Universtitätsmedizin Berlin, department of psychiatry and psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
E. Hahn
Affiliation:
Charité - Universtitätsmedizin Berlin, department of psychiatry and psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
R. Burian
Affiliation:
Evangelic hospital Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, department of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics, Berlin, Germany
M. Dettling
Affiliation:
Charité - Universtitätsmedizin Berlin, department of psychiatry and psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
A. Diefenbacher
Affiliation:
Evangelic hospital Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, department of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics, Berlin, Germany
T.M.T. Ta
Affiliation:
Charité - Universtitätsmedizin Berlin, department of psychiatry and psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

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Aims

Migration with its long-term changes and the resulting task to adjust to the new environment has been associated with an increased risk for mental health problems. This study aims to gain further insight on the relationship between the fours acculturations strategies (integration, assimilation, separation, marginalization) and severity of depression.

Methods

A total of n = 79 first generation Vietnamese outpatients from a psychiatric outpatient clinic for Vietnamese migrants in Germany were investigated regarding self-reported depressive symptoms (patient health questionnaire-9) and acculturation (Stephenson multigroup acculturation scale; SMAS).

Results

Patients with an integration acculturation strategy reported lower severity of depression compared to marginalized patients, who reported the highest severity of depression.

Conclusion

The results implicate that the integration of both the mainstream society and the ethnic society might serve as a resource, whereas the rejection of both societies might increase the risk of depression.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Mental health care; Mental health policies and migration and mental health of immigrants
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S340
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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