A Central Clearing Clinic to Provide Mental Health Services for Refugees in Germany.

To determine migration related distress pattern in refugees and feasibility of a established, central low-threshold outpatient clinic serving more than 80,000 newly arrived refugees in the metropole of Berlin. In an observational cohort study the relative prevalence of major psychiatric disorders by age, place of living within berlin, language and region of origin were assessed in a refugee cohort from 63 nationalities speaking 36 languages. Within 18 months, a total of 3,096 cases with a mean age of 29.