The CTVB Paper of the Month rewards one recent scientific paper of members of the institutions of the research center.
In August 2016 the publication "Depression, anxiety and suicidal Ideation among 1(st) and 2(nd) Generation migrants - results from the Gutenberg health study" was elected as the Paper of the Month.
The mental health of people with migrant background, which are already born in Germany (Migrants of the 2. Generation) is comparable with the mental health of people without migrant background.
People with migrant background, who moved on their own after 1949 (Migrants of the 1. Generation) suffer from mental problems.
These are the findings of a recent research work in the course of the Gutenberg Health Study.
Although it’s internationally proven that people with migrant background are exposed to particular health and psychosocial burden, representative German studies don’t exist.
In the course of the Gutenberg Health Study the research team headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Beutel, Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz compared a broad range of psychological stress in people with migrant background of the first and second generation and people with no migrant background. Cross section data of 14,943 participants of the Gutenberg Health Study, which represent a random sample of the Mainz and Mainz-Bingen population in the age between 35 and 74, were examined.
Depression, anxiety and suicidal Ideation among 1(st) and 2(nd) Generation migrants - results from the Gutenberg health study
BMC Psychiatry DOI: 10.1186/s12888-016-0995-2 Beutel ME, Jünger C, Klein EM, Wild P, Lackner KJ, Blettner M, Banerjee M, Michal M, Wiltink J, Brähler E.