Health Group Intervention Among Refugees in Sweden

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Migration Stress
• Interventions: Behavioral: health education

• Registration Number: NCT03415932
• Lead Sponsor: Region Östergötland

Brief Summary

This prospective intervention study evaluates whether health education and basic body awareness training reduces health care consumption and improves movement quality among refugees in Sweden.

Detailed Description

Migration is well known to be stressful and to have a negative impact on Health. Multidisciplinary health-promoting group interventions have significantly improved self-rated health. Further, symptom improvement was shown after implementation of physical activity in form of basic body awareness training. In this study a multimodal team consisted of a physiotherapist, nurse, psychologist, dietician, and physician held sessions of three hours weekly for a period of nine weeks. The sessions started with basic body awareness training, followed by theme discussions on symptoms and health strategies. A total of 54 participants completed the intervention. Health care consumption and movement quality were measured before and after the intervention.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2017-01-01
• Study Completion: 2017-01-01
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-01-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-01-29
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-30
• Last Update Posted: 2018-02-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 54

Inclusion Criteria

Refugees seeking primary care consultation or rehabilitation unit aged 18-65 years were candidates for inclusion. Based on the health care provider's assessment, patients whose health symptoms could be connected to or increased by the migration process were eligible for inclusion -

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health education	health education	Assessment of healt care Contacts Before and after intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health care consumption	three months before and after intervention	number of Health care contacts