The role of migration in mental healthcare: treatment satisfaction and utilization

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Service utilization: Average confirmation rates of treatment use and response comparisons

	Total			No migration background			Migration background			Chi² Test
	N	n (% Yes)		N	n (% Yes)		N	n (% Yes)		X²	df	p
Medical treatment
Medication prescription ^a	360	353 (98.1%)		294	290 (98.6%)		66	63 (95.5%)		2.87	1	0.090
Outpatient medical-psychiatric treatment ^b	383	151 (39.4%)		312	127 (40.7%)		71	24 (33.8%)		1.15	1	0.283
Psychotherapeutic treatment
Individual psychotherapy ^a	370	254 (68.6%)		301	210 (69.8%)		69	44 (63.8%)		0.94	1	0.333
Family therapy ^a	366	73 (19.9%)		299	64 (21.4%)		67	9 (13.4%)		2.18	1	0.140
Outpatient psychological-psychotherapeutic treatment ^b	384	89 (23.2%)		312	72 (23.1%)		72	17 (23.6%)		0.01	1	0.923
	N	Mdn	M (SD)	N	Mdn	M (SD)	N	Mdn	M (SD)	MWU Test
	N	Mdn	M (SD)	N	Mdn	M (SD)	N	Mdn	M (SD)	U	Z	p
Psychosocial treatment
Score ^c	384	0.28	0.32 (0.17)	314	0.28	0.32 (0.17)	70	0.24	0.28 (0.15)	9839.50	−1.38	0.169

^aParticipants were asked whether they had received the intervention in the last 12 months (VSSS-EU). The related time period of 12 months refers to the inpatient setting (at the time of the survey) and previous settings (out- or inpatient settings)
^bParticipants were asked whether they had received the intervention 3 months before admission to clinic (CSSRI-EU)
^cParticipants were asked whether they had ever received the psychosocial intervention. The displayed score corresponds to the proportion of psychosocial interventions used out of the total number of psychosocial interventions presented, shown as decimal number
N, n Number of participants, X² Chi²-value, df degrees of freedom, Mdn Medians, M Means, SD Standard deviations, MWU Mann-Whitney-U Test, U U-value, Z Standard score

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