Linguistic barriers in communication between oncologists and cancer patients with migration background in Germany: an explorative analysis based on the perspective of the oncologists from the mixed-methods study POM.

Objective: We aimed at investigating the predictors of linguistic barriers among office-based haemato-oncologists during consultation with migrant cancer patients in Germany.

Methods: Physicians from haemato-oncological practices were invited to participate in a cross-sectional study. Linguistic barriers and family factors were ascertained using a newly developed online-questionnaire with the scales "Overall linguistic barriers", "Self-perceived linguistic barriers" and "Family factors - antagonistic behaviour".

Awareness and use of psychosocial care among cancer patients and their relatives-a comparison of people with and without a migration background in Germany.

Purpose: We examined how migration background is associated with awareness and usage of psycho-oncology services.

Methods: Oncologists in community-based practices and outpatient clinics asked their patients and their relatives to complete a questionnaire. Migrants were purposely over-sampled.

Utilisation of psychosocial and informational services in immigrant and non-immigrant German cancer survivors.

Objective: We examined psychosocial and informational services used by long-term survivors of breast, colon and prostate cancer in immigrants versus non-immigrants.

Methods: Patients were sampled from population-based cancer registries in Germany. They completed a questionnaire assessing immigration biography, service use and socio-demographic characteristics.

[Anxiety and depression by Polish and Vietnamese migrants in Leipzig depending on their adaptation process].

Although the fact that migrants show a lower psychological health status than non-migrants is clearly demonstrated by a lot of studies, the connection between migration conditions and psychological health status is seldom analyzed. To close this lack of research 140 Polish and 82 Vietnamese migrants in Leipzig were examined by the anxiety- and depression scale of the HADS and more over asked questions about their cognitive, social, occupational, identificative assimilation status and their perceived discrimination. Both migrant groups showed a higher level of depressive and anxious symptoms than Germans.

Psychosocial determinants of successful voice rehabilitation after laryngectomy.

This study gives an overview of publications on factors that are associated with the outcome of voice rehabilitation after laryngectomy. A systematic literature review was conducted. Fifty-six manuscripts were analyzed regarding the parameters investigated, the number of participants included, the study designs used, the assessment instruments, and the results.

A comparison of general and illness-related locus of control in Russians, ethnic German migrants and Germans.

General and illness-related locus of control play an immensely important role in the adherence and cooperation of patients in their therapy. Until now, culture-specific aspects of these subjective theories have rarely been investigated. However, in view of the growing proportion of migrants in the German population, they are becoming increasingly significant.

Psychogenic urinary retention ('paruresis'): diagnosis and epidemiology in a representative male sample.

Background: Although research interest in social phobias has expanded during the last decade, a special subtype of social phobia known as paruresis, which manifests in the inability to urinate in public rest rooms, is rarely mentioned. The aim of the present study was to achieve for the first time an estimation of point prevalence in a representative male sample (n = 1,105).

Method: Due to the lack of well-established screening instruments for paruresis, the Paruresis Checklist (PCL) must be tested for reliability and validity.