Mental health of asylum seekers: a cross-sectional study of psychiatric disorders

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Psychiatric outcome measures: clinician-rated diagnoses and self-reported symptom severities

Psychiatric diagnoses and symptom severity	Asylum seekers
Psychiatric diagnoses and symptom severity	Group 1 (0–5 months, n = 43)	Group 2 (12–26 months, n = 43)
PTSD
Diagnosed PTSD^a, n (%)	6 (14.0)	14 (32.6)
Symptom severity^b, mean (SD)	13.6 (12.1)	16.9 (14.4)
Depression
Diagnosed Major Depression^a, n (%)	15 (34.9)	12 (27.9)
Symptom severity^c, mean (SD)	1.9 (0.8)	2.1 (0.6)
Anxiety
Diagnosed anxiety disorder^a,d, n (%)	5 (11.6)	2 (4.7)
Symptom severity^d, mean (SD)	1.8 (0.7)	2.0 (0.8)
Pain
Diagnosed Pain Disorder^a, n (%)	3 (7.0)	7 (16.3)
Pain intensity^e, mean (SD)	1.6 (1.6)	2.4 (1.7)
Alcohol
Diagnosed alcohol abuse/dependency	3 (7.0)	1 (2.3)
Number of diagnoses^a
0	26 (60.5)	26 (60.5)
1	3 (7.0)	4 (9.3)
2	9 (20.9)	5 (11.6)
3 or more	5 (11.6)	8 (18.6)

^aassessed using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview [MINI; 16; Sections A, C to O, R, U].
^bassessed using the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale [PDS; [13], Part III sum scores (range 0–51).
^cassessed using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 [HSCL-25; [20], mean scores on items 1–10 (range 0–4).
^dcomprises panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder and social phobia.
^eassessed using the Verbal Rating Scale (VRS, from SF-36; range 0–5).

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