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

ABSTRACT:

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. The questionnaire was provided in Arabic, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Kurdish, Pashto, Russian, Somali, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

Results

From 9 collaborators, 177 participants were enrolled (130 with and 47 without migration background). The existence of outpatient cancer counselling centres was known to 38% of the participants without and 32% with migration background, self-help groups to 32 vs. 12%, and psychotherapy to 43 vs. 25%. Respondents from the Near and

SUBMITTER: Singer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9188276 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature