# Profile, reasons for hospitalization and nursing diagnoses of refugee-native patients admitted to internal medicine clinic-an evaluation from nursing perspective

## TL;DR

This study compares hospitalization and nursing diagnoses of refugee and local patients in Turkey, finding similarities in reasons for admission and nursing care needs.

## Contribution

The study provides a nursing perspective on hospitalization patterns and diagnoses among refugee and native patients in internal medicine.

## Key findings

- Refugee patients had a lower mean age than native patients, but hospitalization duration was similar.
- Bacterial infections were the most common reason for hospitalization in both refugee and native populations.
- Nursing diagnoses aligned with medical diagnoses for both groups, emphasizing infection risk.

## Abstract

The study aims to evaluate the hospitalization diagnoses and nursing diagnoses of the refugee and local population hospitalized in internal medicine clinics, which are especially important in the early diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of chronic diseases, and to emphasize their importance in nursing care.

The study was carried out in a descriptive retrospective design. The files of 3563 patients admitted to the internal medicine clinic of a training and research hospital in Türkiye in 2022 were evaluated. SPSS 26.0 program was used for data analysis.

In the study, 95.3% of hospitalizations were native and 4.7% were refugee patients. It was determined that refugee patients admitted to the internal medicine service had a lower mean age compared to the native population (p < 0.05), but there was no difference in the duration of hospitalization (p > 0.05). When the medical diagnoses of hospitalization were examined, it was determined that the highest number of hospitalizations in the native and refugee populations were for bacterial infections in both genders. In nursing diagnoses, it was determined that both populations and genders were diagnosed with infection risk by the medical diagnoses of the patients.

As a result of the study, it was observed that the duration of hospitalization, reasons for hospitalization, and nursing diagnoses of local and refugee patients were similar. In addition, it was determined that the patients’ medical hospitalization diagnoses and nursing diagnoses were compatible.