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Table 1 Items in the survey

From: Barriers to access to outpatient mental health care for refugees and asylum seekers in Switzerland: the therapist’s view

Nr.

Question

Answer type

Scaling

1.

Would you like to take part in the survey or just have a look at the questions?

sc

n

2.

What is your (main) occupation?

sc

n

3.

Where do you primarily work?

i.e. where do you spend the majority of your professional life?

sc

n

4.

Please state your workload related to your psychiatric-psychotherapeutic activities.

100% = full-time, 5 days a week

ni

i

5..

How many clients (psychiatric/psychotherapeutic) do you treat per year on average as a part of your main occupation?

Please estimate the number of clients [In absolute terms, NOT adjusted to a 100% workload]

ni

i

6.

How many sessions of psychotherapy have you conducted on average per person? (past 12 months)

If not applicable, please enter 0

ni

i

7.

Please estimate the average waiting time for a person to commence therapy in your care (past 12 months)

in weeks / if none, please enter 0

ni

i

8.

Please estimate how many persons you had to reject due to capacity reasons (past 12 months)

in percent % of new registrations / if none, please enter 0

ni

i

9.

Please estimate the number of persons that you have treated who have gone through an asylum procedure or are currently in one (past 12 months)

if none, please enter 0

ni

i

10.

Please think about your clients:

What percentage, measured by the following sub-groups, has made use of any translation aids during treatment? (past 12 months)

sc

i

11.

Was the translation aid usually sufficient for optimal communication with the client? (past 12 months)

sc

r

12.

How often (in percent) were the following translation aids used in situations that required translation? (past 12 months)

ni

i

13.

Are you, or have you ever, worked at an institution focused on psychotherapeutic treatment of refugees?

e.g.: an outpatient clinic for victims of torture or war; consultation hours for migrants, etc.

sc

n

14.

Are there circumstances that prevent you from more frequent psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment of refugees or asylum seekers?

oe

s

15.

How old are you?

ni

i

16.

Gender

sc

n

17.

Since when have you been working full-time in your current profession?

ni

n

18

Please enter the postal code of your main place of work

ni

n

  1. mc multiple choice, sc single choice, ni numeric input, oe open-end, i intervalscaled, o ordinal scaled, n nominal scaled, s string