[Significant barriers to attendance of outpatient psychosocial care facilities for Turkish migrant families from their own point of view].

In family interviews with 77 families migrated from Turkey, reasons for the low rate of attendance in psychiatric institutions were investigated. The reasons that came up were a preference for intra-family solutions in cases of behavior disorders as well as a lack of information, but not a preponderance of traditional magical approaches. A comparison of families attending a mother-tongue outpatient service with non-attendants failed to demonstrate more intra-family resources in the latter. Families proposed to spread information via ethnic communities and to establish mother-tongue facilities. Since the beginning of such a service a systematic increase in attendance rates was recorded.