Abstract:
INTRODUCTION:Since late 1980s, 1,001,726 immigrants arrived in Israel from the former Soviet Union (FSU). A review of community studies on the mental health of these immigrants is presented. METHOD:Israeli studies from the past two decades were reviewed. Presented are findings on the prevalence of psychological distress and psychiatric disorders as well as on a number of risk factors among FSU immigrants. RESULTS:Higher psychological distress and psychiatric morbidity were consistently found among FSU immigrants compared to the Israel-born. Social support was identified as a major stress-mitigating factor in migration. Most studies reveal the persistence of psychological distress among FSU immigrants during the first 5 years following migration, with a risk period around the second and third years following migration. DISCUSSION:Findings from Israel corroborate some findings on immigrants in other countries but as they are limited to a single immigrant population, replication of these studies is necessary.
journal_name
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemioljournal_title
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiologyauthors
Mirsky Jdoi
10.1007/s00127-008-0430-1subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-03-01 00:00:00pages
179-87issue
3eissn
0933-7954issn
1433-9285journal_volume
44pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract:BACKGROUND:Migration has been found to be a risk factor for schizophrenia in several high-income countries. AIM:To examine whether overseas migrants to New South Wales (NSW) have higher rates of admission to psychiatric hospitals for psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia and mania, compared to people born in Au...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1007/s00127-012-0577-7
更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00788761
更新日期:1992-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-010-0236-9
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-017-1440-7
更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-006-0081-z
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-019-01829-0
更新日期:2020-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00805622
更新日期:1994-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/BF00805795
更新日期:1995-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-009-0019-3
更新日期:2009-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s001270170006
更新日期:2001-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-017-1388-7
更新日期:2017-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-005-0850-0
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00782743
更新日期:1990-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF02351820
更新日期:1989-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00127-015-1091-5
更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1007/s00127-011-0431-3
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s001270050194
更新日期:2000-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-005-0994-y
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Little is known about the first patients who left hospital before and during the official implementation of the hospital discharge policy in Northern Ireland. This study describes patterns of residential provision for former long-stay patients (approximately two-thirds of whom had an ICD-9 diagnosis of schizophrenia) ...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00789139
更新日期:1997-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-008-0484-0
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-005-0018-y
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-018-1497-y
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Immigrants may experience several negative consequences as a result of their migration including discrimination, unsatisfactory economic conditions, and rejection from the host countries, which may contribute to psychiatric illness and vulnerability to suicidal behaviors. The purpose of the current study was...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-012-0608-4
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:De-institutionalization of psychiatric patients has led to a greater emphasis on family management in the community, and family members are often overwhelmed by the demands that caring for a patient with schizophrenia involves. Most studies of family burden in schizophrenia have taken place in developed coun...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-005-0963-5
更新日期:2005-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of parental socioeconomic status (SES) on subjects' well-being and health behaviour in adolescence, early adulthood and adulthood, and whether these impacts remained after controlling for the person's own SES. METHODS:All 16-year-old ninth-grade school pupi...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-003-0630-7
更新日期:2003-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Nonmedical use of prescription opioid and stimulants (NMUPO and NMUPS, respectively) has declined in recent years, but remains an important public health problem. Evidence regarding their relationships with employment status remains unclear. We determined the relationship between employment status and NMUPO and...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-016-1312-6
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:This study examined the relationship between discrepancies in beliefs about schizophrenia and Expressed Emotion (EE) in family dyads. METHOD:Illness beliefs were assessed in patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and their relatives (N=49 dyads). The degree and the direction of discrepancy were calculat...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-005-0993-z
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::On the basis of a representative survey carried out in Germany in the Autumn of 1990, hypotheses about the effect of diagnostic labelling on lay beliefs regarding schizophrenic disorders were tested. As expected, labelling the disorder as schizophrenia increased the likelihood that biological factors were considered t...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00783419
更新日期:1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Data on mental disorder prevalence and health service utilization required to inform healthcare management and planning are lacking in Hong Kong. The current study determined the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD), and examined the patterns of mental health service utilization and associated factors. ...
journal_title:Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00127-015-1014-5
更新日期:2015-09-01 00:00:00