Necesidades de salud mental en inmigrantes académicos de la cuidad de Loja

Abstract

This investigation focuses on determining the mental health needs of academic migrants settled in the city of Loja and propose primary intervention strategies to those issues. The design of this research was quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional. 50 academic migrants were interviewed with a profound interview that evaluest their migratory process, and their health. The main mental health needs most frequently shown by the students in relation to Ulysses Syndrome are: crying, lack of sleep, sadness, body pains, tensión, the difficulties during the adaptation process are: language, new culture, customs, nutrition, and routine, the strategies that have been generated in relation to the main symptoms of mental health, have been structure towards the migrants, and in the intervention there are detailed strategies for the educational institutions, the places where they work and the health centers, also the majority of the participants suggested to other migrants that is necessary to strengthen the emotional support of their social network in both their native and host countries.