In migrants alcohol-related problems increase with increasing age. This group, in particular, is hardly reached by alcohol-specific care offers. Thus our project aimed at the identification of target group-specific barriers to health-care use by means of a cross-sectional study (n=435). Based on these results a trans-cultural concept for alcohol prevention among elderly migrants was developed and evaluated in a cluster-randomised controlled trial (n=176). © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart New York.

Barriers Migrants Alcohol Transcultural prevention

cultural anthropology Germany health promotion Preventive Health Services sex ratio human middle aged statistics and numerical data controlled study randomized controlled trial alcohol Aged alcoholism ethnology cross-sectional study migrant psychology Cross-Cultural Comparison Treatment Outcome Humans male Emigrants and Immigrants female Aged, 80 and over preventive health service very elderly risk factor Risk Factors cultural factor Alcohol-Related Disorders trans cultural prevention prevalence Article prevention health care utilization major clinical study Sex Distribution utilization patient attitude age distribution Patient Acceptance of Health Care attitude to health Health Services for the Aged elderly care Culture