Necesidades de salud mental de trabajadores que vienen del exterior a radicarse en forma permanente en la ciudad de Loja.

Abstract

This research focused on determining the mental health needs of workers coming from abroad to settle permanently in the city of Loja and indentify intervention strategies. The research design were quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional, retrospective measures are taken into account, fifty immigrant workers from Loja city were interviewed, for which the health and migration survey for data collection was used, applied through a structured interview, within the main results are: the mental health needs were infrequent, have rarely presented symptoms related to depression, anxiety, somatization and confounding symptomatology, 36% of immigrants do not consider that they are stressed, being one of the factors that influence their good adaptation, the majority of participants suggest to other migrants that it is necessary to foster the emotional support of both their social network in the country of origin and in the host country; and within the main difficulties of the process of post migration adaptation are: language, culture, customs, lifestyle, food, etc.