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S624 25th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 41S (2017) S583–S644
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The perceptions of Greek immigrants
in Germany about the health illness
and pain in the context of mental
health
S. Kotrotsiou ∗, A. Tsoumani , E. Kotrotsiou , M. Gouva ,
E. Dragioti , T. Paralikas
1 University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Nursing-Postgraduate
Program in Mental Health-Research Laboratory of Care, Larissa,
Greece
2 University of Applied Sciences of Epirus, Nursing-Research
Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals,
Ioannina, Greece
3 Linköping University, Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping,
Sweden
∗ Corresponding author.
Aim This study aims to investigate the perceptions of health, dis-
ease and pain issues among Greek immigrant, living in Germany,
as they were formed through their previous experiences, their
immigration routes and their experiences in a new sociocultural
environment, while taking under consideration their varying cul-
tural backgrounds.
Material-method This research was based on the personal inter-
pretations of ten Greek immigrant (6 women and 4 men). As to
methodology, qualitative research was employed. The method-
ological tools used for the collection of the material were
semi-structured interviews (face to face), participant observation
and a field diary. Finally, the method of analysis used for the empir-
ical material was content thematic analysis.
Results All participants experienced immigration as an especially
stressful period of their lives that changed their state of health
(these changes extend from physical complaints to manifestation
of depression). Most person describe life inGermany as difficult due
to various problems (loss of relatives and friends’ social networks,
poor language knowledge, isolation, etc.). However, the public
health system’s organization (regardless any flaws), which ensures
their access to health services, positively contributed in chang-
ing their attitudes regarding the issues under question. Lastly, the
reference to psycho-traumatic situations, transitional life phases,
as well as to stimuli in the difficult everyday life feed person’s
meaning-makings about pain.
Conclusions The research’s results showed that health and dis-
ease are not only biologically determined phenomena. They also are
socially determined situations, given that they are not only related
to changes in the individual’s psychology but are influenced by the
broader sociocultural environment in which the individual lives
and works.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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Problems of investigation of
immigrants’ students and their
relation to psychopathology
S. Kotrotsiou ∗, E. Tsoumani , E. Kotrotsiou , M. Gouva ,
E. Dragioti , T. Paralikas
1 University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Nursing-Postgraduate
Program in Mental Health-Research Laboratory of Care, Larissa,
Greece
2 University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Nursing-Postgraduate
Program in Mental Health, Larissa, Greece
3 University of Applied Sciences of Epirus, Nursing-Research
Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals,
Ioannina, Greece
4 Linköping University, Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping,
Sweden
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction The purpose of this research was to investigate the
problems of first-generation immigrant students and the linkage of
these problems with the psychopathology of students.
Objectives The sample of this study included men and women
students, that were second-generation immigrants aged from 18
to > 25 years.
Methods The research tools used were: (a) Psychopathology
Scale (Symptom Checklist 90-R - SCL-90) and (b) State - Trait Anxi-
ety Inventory (STAI), (c) the orientation test life (LOT-R) d) Other As
Shamer Scale (OAS), (e) Experience of Shame Scale (ESS). The statis-
tical processing of data showedQ (a) the students immigrants have
higher levels of student migrants stairways: inferior (OAS), empty
(OAS), (Mistakes (OAS), Total internal shame (ESS), characterologi-
cal shame (ESS), behavioral shame (ESS), bodily shame (ESS), Trait
Anxiety (STAI), Somatization (SCL-90), Inter. Sensitivity (SCL-90)
and Depression (SCL-90).
Results The results of our study found high levels of psy-
chopathology students immigrants and students migrant and
interpretative this finding is explained by the lifestyle of their par-
ents immigrants and different cultures which have to cope and
adapt and their marginalization from society and official institu-
tions, a situation that results in their exposure to a variety of risks
to their mental health.
Conclusions In addition to increased levels of psychopathology,
second generation immigrants such as students and the students
in our sample suffer from violence the authorities and their fellow
citizens.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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Native vs. migrants – same
opportunities or
discriminated? – Psychiatry trainees’s
views from the EFPT brain drain study
M. Pinto da Costa ∗, S. Tomori , T. Mogren , E. Biskup ,
F. Baessler , D. Frydecka , O. Killic , E. Research Group
1 Hospital de Magalhaes Lemos, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
2 Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary University
of London, London, United Kingdom
3 Mother Teresa, University Hospital Center, Tirana, Albania
4 Allmänpsykiatriska kliniken, Falun/Säter, Säter, Sweden
5 University Hospital of Basel, Department of Internal Medicine,
Basel, Switzerland
6 University Hospital Heidelberg, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine
and Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics,
Heidelberg, Germany
7 Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw,
Poland
8 Koc University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Istambul, Turkey
9 European Federation of Psychiatry Trainees, Brain drain study,
Brussels, Belgium
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction It is a well known fact that qualified health pro-
fessionals generally migrate to high-income, developed regions.
Nevertheless, the perceptions of this immigrant skilled health
workforce on access to opportunities or feeling discriminated in
their host countries, have not yet been explored or adequately
addressed.
Objectives This work has focused on the perceptions of immi-
grant psychiatry trainees in several European countries about their