Atencion Primaria
Volume 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 467-473

Study of migratory grief in immigrant patients seen in Primary Care clinics. Presentation of a migratory grief evaluation questionnaire [Estudio del duelo migratorio en pacientes inmigrantes que acuden a las consultas de atención primaria. Presentación de un cuestionario de valoración del duelo migratorio] (Article) (Open Access)

De La Revilla L. , De Los Ríos Álvarez A.M.* , De Dios Luna Del Castillo J. , Gómez García M. , Valverde Morillas C. , López Torres G.
  • a Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Nieves, Granada, Spain
  • b Centro de Salud Cartuja, Distrito Granada, Granada, Spain
  • c Departamento de Bioestadística, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
  • d Centro de Salud Valle de Lecrín, Distrito Metropolitano Granada, Granada, Spain
  • e Centro de Salud la Zubia, Distrito Metropolitano Granada, Granada, Spain
  • f Centro de Salud Cartuja, Distrito Granada, Granada, Spain

Abstract

Objectives: To validate a questionnaire designed to show the existence of migratory grief (MG) and its dimensions in the immigrant population, and to study its relationship with certain sociodemographic variables. Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional, multicentre study. Emplacement: Consultations in Primary Health Care. Patients: The study included 290 Primary Health Care immigrant patients over 18-years old. There were 12 rejections due to, lack of time, absence of a translator, and lack of understanding. Principal measurements: An MG questionnaire with 17 questions was employed, carrying out a factor analysis with final extraction of 4 factors explaining 52.1% of overall variance. Sociodemographic variables were collected: gender, age, marital status, nationality, social network, time in Spain, legal and work situation and communication difficulties. Multivariate analysis was performed using the sociodemographic variables. Results: Four factors were found (fear, homesickness, concern and loss of identity), showing that non-communality was < 0.30 and considering that the 4 factors represent the group of variables from the questionnaire. After analysing the correlations between the different factors, it was observed that concern is related to fear and homesickness, this latter being independent from fear. The loss of identity had a low correlation with other factors. Cronbach's alpha showed good consistency in factors 1, 2 and 3. Some sociodemographic variables are associated with the presence of each factor. Conclusions: We present a validated instrument to study and characterise MG, adapted to study the different dimensions of the grief in immigrant population. © 2010 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Primary care Migratory grief Immigration

Index Keywords

immigrant primary medical care Cronbach alpha coefficient correlation analysis human Cross-Sectional Studies cross-sectional study Humans consultation Emigrants and Immigrants clinical evaluation Socioeconomic Factors Multivariate Analysis nostalgia socioeconomics questionnaire Article emotion Questionnaires adult migratory grief loss of identity concern factorial analysis grief Fear primary health care
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80052291009&doi=10.1016%2fj.aprim.2010.09.013&partnerID=40&md5=f0ef1f4c42c582732b84a82e5d3f04db
DOI: 10.1016/j.aprim.2010.09.013
ISSN: 02126567
Cited by: 1
Original Language: Spanish