[Mental health locus of control in refugees with clinically established psychopathology].

Q3 Medicine
Psychiatrike = Psychiatriki Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Epub Date: 2022-11-11 DOI:10.22365/jpsych.2022.094
Antonis Tsionis, Dimitris Pantoglou, Yiannis Kasvikis
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The present study attempts to examine the mental health locus of control (LOC) of refugees with clinically diagnosed psychopathology and to examine the possible association of LOC with the presentation of the psychopathology. LOC refers to the degree to which a person attributes what happens in their life to themselves or to external factors. It draws its theoretical background from Rotter's theory of social learning. External LOC has been linked to psychopathology in anxiety disorders (AD), depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which migrants are primarily at risk in comparison to the indigenous population. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The study involved 40 refugees who were referred to the psychiatric office, by the psychologists of a non-governmental organization, due to clinically established psychopathology. In the first session, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire-5 (HTQ5) were administered, according to the score of which the psychologists' referral diagnoses were confirmed. To assess the LOC the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Questionnaire (MHLC) was administered, which measures LOC in self, significant others, and luck. The questionnaires were administered in English, Farsi, and Lingala. We translated the MHLC questionnaire to Lingala for the needs of the present study and the validity of the translation was ensured using back-translation, from English to Lingala and from Lingala back to English by different translators to control the identification of the English texts. Refugees scored lower on self and higher on significant others and chance. Correlations between LOC and the presentation of psychopathology were sought. A negative correlation was found between the severity of depression and the score on self on the MHLC, a finding that has also been demonstrated in other studies. The intensity of depression was positively correlated with the score of MHLC on luck. There was also a positive correlation between the intensity of the symptoms of PTSD and the score of MHLC to luck, in our sample. The present study highlights the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Questionnaire as a remarkable and useful tool in the assessment of refugees with psychopathology in Greece.

[有临床心理病理学的难民的心理健康控制点]。
本研究试图考察经临床诊断患有精神病理学的难民的心理健康控制点(LOC),并研究控制点与精神病理学表现之间可能存在的关联。LOC 是指一个人将生活中发生的事情归因于自身或外部因素的程度。它的理论背景来自罗特的社会学习理论。外部 LOC 与焦虑症(AD)、抑郁症和创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)中的精神病理学有关,与原住民相比,移民是这些疾病的主要高危人群。这是一项描述性横断面研究。研究涉及 40 名难民,他们因临床确定的精神病理学而被一家非政府组织的心理学家转介到精神科办公室。在第一次治疗中,进行了患者健康问卷-9(PHQ-9)和哈佛创伤问卷-5(HTQ5)的测试,根据测试结果确认了心理学家的转诊诊断。为了评估 LOC,还采用了多维健康控制感问卷(MHLC),该问卷用于测量自我、重要他人和运气中的 LOC。问卷以英语、波斯语和林加拉语进行测试。为了本研究的需要,我们将 MHLC 问卷翻译成了林加拉语,并由不同的翻译人员从英语翻译成林加拉语,再从林加拉语翻译回英语,以确保翻译的有效性,从而控制对英语文本的识别。难民在自我方面得分较低,而在重要他人和偶然性方面得分较高。我们寻求了 LOC 与精神病理学表现之间的相关性。研究发现,抑郁症的严重程度与 MHLC 自我评分之间存在负相关,这一结果也已在其他研究中得到证实。抑郁症的严重程度与 MHLC 对运气的评分呈正相关。在我们的样本中,创伤后应激障碍症状的强度与 MHLC 对运气的评分也呈正相关。本研究强调了多维健康自控力问卷是评估希腊境内患有精神病理学的难民的一个重要而有用的工具。
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