A Walk-In Clinic for Newly Arrived Mentally Burdened Refugees: The Patient Perspective.

Providing refugees with psychosocial support is particularly important considering the high level of mental health problems prevalent in this population. A psychosocial walk-in clinic operating within a state reception and registration center in Germany has been supporting mentally burdened refugees since 2016. This study focused on patients' perspectives on their mental health burden, the psychosocial walk-in clinic, and future help seeking.

[Evaluation of the Use of Interpreters in Medical and Psychosocial Health Care of Refugees in a Reception and Registration Centre of the German Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg].

Objective: In the medical and psychosocial health care of refugees the use of interpreters is of fundamental importance. The involvement of interpreters changes the dyadic practitioner-patient system to a triad requiring different behavior guidelines. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the involvement of interpreters in the medical and psychosocial outpatient clinic in a registration centre for refugees in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Secondary Traumatization in Interpreters for Refugees: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: A substantial proportion of refugees, fleeing persecution, torture, and war, are estimated to suffer from psychological traumatization. After being sheltered in reception centers, the refugees come in close contact with different occupational groups, e.g.