Table 1 Questionnaire
1. Socio-demographic and professional characteristics: | |
Age range | Number of years spent working with AS |
Gender | Amount of time spent working directly with AS during an average workday |
Occupation | |
2. Subjective assessment of proportion of AS with mental health problems: | |
What is the prevalence of psychiatric illness amongst the AS population? | What proportions of AS are receiving appropriate mental health care? |
3. Priority needs of AS: In your opinion, do asylum seekers have… | |
adequate financial resources? | access to means of communication to be able to contact relatives living in their countries of origin ? |
adequate means to assure appropriate hygiene? | |
adequate means to assure appropriate nutrition? | access to secure living conditions? |
good access to schooling for their children? | access to public transportation? |
access to appropriate housing conditions? | access to the practice of religion? |
In your opinion, a priority need for asylum seekers is… | |
to increase access to employment? | to improve access to somatic care? |
to increase access to vocational training? | to improve access to dental care? |
to increase access to legal aid? | to improve access to psychiatric care? |
to improve housing conditions? | |
4. Barriers to access to mental healthcare: In your opinion, what are the reasons for not consulting? | |
Trivializing of mental suffering | Fear of lack of confidentiality of consultations |
Negative opinion of psychiatry | Previous negative psychiatric experience |
Fear of being stigmatized by one’s community | Fear of receiving medication with side effects |
Lack of information on the existing mental health care services available | Fear of involuntary hospitalization |
Fear of being penalized in one’s application for asylum | |
Complexity of the healthcare network | Fear of being discriminated against by caregivers |