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PubMed1991

[Psychopathology in Ethiopian Jewish immigrants].

In 87 of 352 adult Ethiopian Jews living in Natanya who immigrated recently, psychopathological symptoms were evaluated and their relationships to conditions of immigration and absorption were determined. They were interviewed by Ethiopians who had immigrated previously and who had been trained to help them complete questionnaires at home. The subjects were rated by the interviewers according to the Physician's Outpatient Psychopathology Scale (211-O.P.S.), as well as by 3 other self-rating scales with regard to satisfaction with their life in Israel, events that had occurred while en route to Israel, and frequency of visits to their clinic family physician. The results showed a high incidence of psychopathological symptoms which had persisted even after 5 years in Israel. The main causes of dissatisfaction (found in more than 60% of the sample), in order of severity were: achievement in learning Hebrew, financial situation, attitude of the Israeli religious institutions towards the Ethiopian community, and the degree of nonobservance of religious customs by other Israeli Jews. There was a high degree of correlation between psychopathological symptoms and suffering on the journey to Israel, with the symptoms usually becoming less severe with length of stay in Israel. A high incidence of symptoms was also related to increased age and to low levels of education. Those living in apartments dispersed among the general population suffered less from psychopathological symptoms than those living in buildings largely occupied by other Ethiopian immigrants.

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PubMed1991

[Disability pensions among immigrants in Oslo].

The prevalence of vocational disability pensions is now much higher among immigrants from Pakistan, Turkey and Morocco who settled in Norway in the late 1960' and early 1970' in order to find work than among the Norwegian population in general. The present study covers two cohorts of males and females aged 40-44 and 50-54 years of age in receipt of disability pensions. Musculoskeletal pain syndromes are far more prevalent among the immigrants as basis for a pension than among the Norwegian disabled population. In contrast, psychiatric diagnoses are less frequent among the immigrants. The above differences are discussed. The living conditions and particularly the working conditions of the immigrants, whose jobs are characterized by physical hardships and long working hours, may be an important reason for the high prevalence of vocational disability. Psychiatric diagnoses may be concealed because of their stigmatizing nature. Early retirement from work is more common in the countries from where the immigrants came and they thus tend to apply for a disability pension. This means that the Norwegian insurance system, with its rather liberal policy of consent, takes over many of the social and economic obligations which were traditionally part of family and kinship obligations in the former culture of the immigrants.

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