Satisfaction with daily occupations amongst asylum seekers in Denmark

Morville, Anne-Le; Erlandsson, Lena‐Karin; Danneskiold‐Samsøe, Bente; Amris, Kirstine; Eklund, Mona

doi:10.3109/11038128.2014.982702

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“…Accordingly, access to health care services was stressed as an important need among the study participants, particularly female participants. Previous studies have highlighted several barriers to asylum seekers accessing health care services, including legal aspects, mistrust, language and cultural factors, lack of awareness, stigma, and negative attitudes towards and by providers [19,20]. Elements of mistrust and feelings of being neglected were also expressed by participants in the focus group discussions in this study.…”

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Perceived Needs Among Asylum Seekers in Sweden: A Mixed Methods Study

Hugelius

Semrau

Holmefur

2020

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The health and well-being of asylum seekers in high-income countries is a concern from both individual and community perspectives. This study aims to describe the perceived needs of adult asylum seekers in Sweden. A mixed methods study was conducted that combined a non-randomized descriptive cross-sectional assessment of perceived serious needs using the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs Scale (HESPER) Web with 85 adult asylum seekers and focus group discussions with 14 adult asylum seekers in Sweden. Descriptive and comparative statistics were used for the quantitative part, and thematic analysis for the qualitative part. The total number of perceived serious needs reported by respondents ranged from zero to 13 needs per person with a mean of four needs (SD 2.71). The most commonly perceived serious needs were related to income or livelihood, separation from loved ones, being displaced from home, distress, and concerns about accessing adequate health care services. Many of the perceived needs appeared to be related to experiences of being dependent, in limbo, and vulnerable. Addressing people’s current perceived needs can contribute to resilience and well-being and therefore should be considered in health care systems that cater to immigrants.

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Perceived Needs Among Asylum Seekers in Sweden: A Mixed Methods Study

Hugelius

Semrau

Holmefur

2020

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“…The instrument includes the categories of work, leisure, domestic activities and personal care. It has been used to explore satisfaction among individuals of working age, such as people with psychiatric disabilities [ 19 ], with stress-related ill health [ 20 ], with rheumatic disease [ 10 ], and with a foreign background [ 21 , 22 ]. In summary, there appears to be a need for an adapted version of the SDO that explores satisfaction with daily occupations in a broader sense that has less focus on competitive work in order to better suit the situation of elderly people.…”

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Satisfaction with Daily Occupations for Elderly People (SDO-E)—Adaptation and Psychometric Testing

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Satisfaction with everyday occupations has been shown to be important for health and well-being in various populations. Research into satisfaction with everyday occupations among elderly persons is, however, lacking. The aim was to investigate the psychometric properties of an adapted test version of the Satisfaction with Daily Occupations instrument (SDO) for elderly people, called SDO-E. Five hospital-based occupational therapists working with elderly people evaluated the content validity and usability of the SDO-E. The elderly participants consisted of 50 people from outside of the health services and 42 inpatients at an internal medicine clinic. They completed the SDO-E and rated their perceived health, activity level, and general satisfaction with daily occupations. The SDO-E showed fair content validity and utility, acceptable internal consistency, good preliminary construct validity and relevant known-groups validity. The SDO-E thus appears to be a useful screening tool for assessing activity level and satisfaction with daily occupations among elderly people, and a complement to other self-report instruments concerning factors connected with health and well-being. Future research should further explore the content validity of the SDO-E, particularly the views of the elderly themselves, and investigate the SDO-E in terms of sensitivity to change.

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“…When patients are depressed, it might be more challenging for them to actually perform the planned exposure because of fatigue, lack of motivation, etc. (2) Occupational deprivation and daily life functioning might mutually maintain inactivity and depression (Morville et al, 2015).…”

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Painful memories: Challenges in trauma-focused therapy for torture survivors with PTSD and chronic pain

Dibaj

Halvorsen

Kennair

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Introduction: PTSD and chronic pain are disorders that researchers increasingly acknowledge to be risk factors that overlap and their comorbidity is associated with poorer treatment outcomes. This review focuses on torture survivors due to the high prevalence of comorbidity in this group, as well as how PTSD and chronic pain might develop, interact and mutually maintain each other. Methods: A narrative review of empirical studies and theoretical models regarding chronic pain and PTSD in torture survivors, informed by studies conducted in other contexts. Results and discussion: An overview of PTSD and chronic pain studies of torture survivors is presented. Treatment studies for torture survivors with PTSD are scarce and have been discouraging. Studies in other patient populations and theoretical models of main- taining factors within the cognitive-behavioral paradigm are presented, and focused around how interactions between PTSD and chronic pain might mitigate treatment of both disorders. Mutually maintaining factors between chronic pain and PTSD are presented as potential barriers to healing, and clinical implications involve suggestions for clinicians with intention to overcome these barriers in trauma-focused treatment of torture survivors. The knowledge base on how chronic pain and PTSD interact within the context of torture is still very limited.Torture is a potent risk factor in itself for both chronic pain and PTSD. Studies point to complex interactions between pain and PTSD across different trauma-exposed populations, especially when the trauma includes pain. Moreover, the coping strategies that are available and might function as some form of protection during torture [e.g. dissociation, withdrawal], might conversely function to exacerbate symptoms when the survivor is in a safe rehabilitation context. Observations combined with CPPC literature and recent developments in learning theory challenge clinical practice accordingly. Additionally, the limited knowledge base prevents us from providing clear-cut sugges- tions, particularly as the majority of scientific enquiry regarding chronic pain and PTSD has been conducted in other populations outside of the torture survivors group. Furthermore, cultural factors, specific needs and characteristics in this group, the human rights perspective and the socio-political context all need to be acknowledged. Trauma-focused treatment does not appear to specifically target all the mechanisms that are supposedly interacting in maintaining chronic pain and PTSD. Interdisciplinary rehabilitation and close collaboration between physiotherapists and trauma-focused therapists are warranted.

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Satisfaction with daily occupations amongst asylum seekers in Denmark

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Perceived Needs Among Asylum Seekers in Sweden: A Mixed Methods Study

Perceived Needs Among Asylum Seekers in Sweden: A Mixed Methods Study

Satisfaction with Daily Occupations for Elderly People (SDO-E)—Adaptation and Psychometric Testing

Painful memories: Challenges in trauma-focused therapy for torture survivors with PTSD and chronic pain

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