Worries are the mother of many diseases: General practitioners and refugees in the Netherlands on stress, being ill and prejudice

Objective: To confront the views of refugee patients and general practitioners in the Netherlands, focusing on medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS). Methods: The study is based on in depth interviews with refugees from Afghanistan (n = 36) and Somalia (n = 30). Additionally, semistructured interviews were conducted with 24 general practitioners. Text fragments concerning the relationship between mental worries and health or physical ailments were subject of a secondary analysis, the results of which are presented. Results: Medically unexplained physical symptoms were a key issue for... Mehr ...