Psychiatric disorders in inpatient Ethiopian migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates

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ID2395563
AutoresKarim Abdel Aziz (0000-0002-7609-7756, United Arab Emirates University, autor de correspondencia), Hawraa Sameer Sajwani (Shaikh Khalifa Medical City), Mohammed Galadari (Al Ain Hospital), Abeer Al-Ammari (Al Ain Hospital), Jameilah Alhassani (Al Ain Hospital), Nawwaf Al-Nuaimi (Al Ain Hospital), Mohamed Elhassan Elamin (Daughters of Charity Health System), Dina Aly El-Gabry (Ain Shams University), Dina Aly El‐gabry (0000-0001-9783-6119, Ain Shams University)
Año2023
Volumen60
Número6
Páginas997-1004
Fecha de publicación2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTranscultural Psychiatric Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-1108 • E-ISSN: 0315-4386
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13634615231200855
PMID37753634
OpenAlexW4387077894
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

Migrant workers have higher rates of mental health problems than non-migrant workers, with Ethiopian migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates appearing to be overrepresented in the psychiatric inpatient population compared with their numbers in the general population. We sought to investigate the pattern of psychiatric inpatient admissions in Ethiopian migrant workers over a 10-year period (2011-2020) in order to highlight demographic and clinical characteristics, and to investigate factors predicting the length of hospital stay. We reported the mean and frequency of demographic and clinical data of Ethiopian psychiatric inpatients at one of the largest governmental hospitals in eastern Abu Dhabi between 2011 and 2020, and investigated factors predicting length of stay in hospital using linear regression. Our results show that Ethiopian expatriates made up 7.9% of all admissions over a 10-year period, had a mean length of hospital stay of almost 20 days, with 98.1% of them being female, 92.8% being domestic workers, 90.1% having a language barrier, 57.4% being single and 55.5.% having one or more recent stressors prior to admission. The most common diagnoses were acute stress reaction (31.6%), psychosis (29.3%), bipolar disorder (14.8%) and adjustment disorder (11.0%). Work-related stress, termination of employment and several clinical factors significantly predicted length of stay in hospital

Environmental health · Mental health · Population · Psychiatric hospital · Psychiatry · Stressor · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Migration, Health and Trauma