CORRECTION article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1708731
The burden of substance use and (mental) distress among asylum seekers: a cross sectional study
Provisionally accepted
- Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg Klinik fur Psychosomatische und Allgemeine Medizin, Heidelberg, Germany
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Correction: The burden of substance use and (mental) distress among asylum seekers: a cross sectional study Error in figure/table Wrong content There was a mistake in Table 1 as published. There was a typing error with the counts for Religion. Islam was listed as 183 (correct: 184) and Christianity as 26 (correct: 25). The percentages for Islam and Christianity were off by 0.4 percentage points (76.9% → 77.3%; 10.9% → 10.5%). The table has been corrected. The corrected Table 1 appears below. Table 1 Sample demographics, flight-related data, psychometric measures and SUD-Screen N = 238 n (%) M (SD) Range Cronbach's alpha Gender Male 185 (77,7) Female 48 (20,2) Diverse 5 (2,1) Age (years) 29,06 (8,16) 18-68 No. of children 0,93 (1,57) 0-8 2 Religion Islam 184 (77,3) Christianity 25 (10,5) Other 29 (12,2) Education Not attended school 14 (5,9) Attended school 106 (44,50) Finished school 71 (29,8) Finished university 47 (16,7) Language proficiency No english/german 164 (68,90) Speaking english/german 74 (31,10) Flight companionship Traveling alone 161 (67,60) Traveling in company 77 (32,40) Pre-migratory stress1 0,19 (0,14) Peri-migratory stress1 0,22 (0,16) Post-migratory stress1 0,23 (0,21) SOC-9L-Score 39,96 (14,09) 0.81 ERQ-10 Cognitive Reappraisal 3,36 (1,72) 0.86 ERQ-10 Expressive Suppression 3,32 (1,65) 0.69 SCL-K-9-Score 15,95 (8,98) 0.85 Location Psych. outpatient Clinic 97 (40,8) Gen. med. outpatient Clinic 88 (37) Residence in camp 53 (22,3) SUD-Screen positive2 43 (18.1) 1 Adversity raƟos (calculated from the number of experienced potenƟally traumaƟzing events) are displayed as a quanƟficaƟon of pre-, peri-and post-migratory stress. 2Number of parƟcipants who met criteria for SUD (substance use disorder), according to DSM-5. Text correction Adding/removing text In the text describing the counts of different religions among participants, values were reported partly incorrect as they were deriving from the typographical error in table 1. The number of participants identifying as Muslim (Islam) was reported as one too low (183 instead of 184), the number of participants identifying as Christians as one too high (26 instead of 25), the percentage value of Christians was too high accordingly (10.9% instead of 10.5%). In the "Others" category the percentage value was reported 0.4 too low (11.8% instead of 12.2%). A correction has been made to the section [3 Results, 3.2 Sociodemographic]: With regard to religious/spiritual believes, a majority (n = 184, 77.3%) described themselves as being Muslim. The second largest group was formed by Christians (n = 25, 10.5%) and a variety of other religious/spiritual orientations (Atheism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, "others") was quoted and sub summarized in the category "others" (n = 29, 12.2%) for statistical analysis. The original version of this article has been updated.
Keywords: asylum seekers, Refugee, substance use disorders, Mental Health, risk and protective factors
Received: 19 Sep 2025; Accepted: 26 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Maximilian Solfrank, solfrank@stud.uni-heidelberg.de
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