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REmoving LAnguage barriers in TrEating Refugees – Improving communication in psychiatric care of refugees – Clinical validation

REmoving LAnguage barriers in TrEating Refugees – Improving communication in psychiatric care of refugees – Clinical validation - RELATER

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00024090
Enrollment
1200
Registered
2021-02-02
Start date
2021-02-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-04-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

All psychiatric disorders that can be diagnosed through the respective clinical interviews.The goal is to study the full spectrum of psychiatric disorders as best as possible.

Interventions

Group 1: MINI diagnosis supported by machine translation using a mobile cross-linguistic system. External validation through SCID interview with a different blinded expert supported by human translat

Sponsors

Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 74 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Refugees or asylum seekers with Arabic (possibly with dialect) as primary language presented for psychiatric examination in outpatient setting (outpatient clinic, primary care)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: inability to provide informed consent, somatic illness as primary presenting complaint

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
correspondence in accurate diagnoses to the gold standard (SCID) expert clinician interview.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Comparability of the proportion of correct diagnoses obtained in this study ba conventional MINI to the current literature. Influence of social status, social support, physical health and personality traits or traumatic experiences on the Validity of the diagnostic process.

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactJanina;Lena Schweiger;Geiger-Primo

Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit;Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit

relater.info@zi-mannheim.de;relater.info@zi-mannheim.de+49 621 1703 1938;+49 621 1703 1938

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026