Table 1.

Questionnaire

1. Socio-demographic and professional characteristics:
Age range	Number of years spent working with AS
Gender	Amount of time spent working directly with AS during an average workday
Occupation
2. Subjective assessment of proportion of AS with mental health problems:
What is the prevalence of psychiatric illness amongst the AS population?	What proportions of AS are receiving appropriate mental health care?
3. Priority needs of AS:   In your opinion, do asylum seekers have…
adequate financial resources?	access to means of communication to be able to contact relatives living in their countries of origin ?
adequate means to assure appropriate hygiene?
adequate means to assure appropriate nutrition?	access to secure living conditions?
good access to schooling for their children?	access to public transportation?
access to appropriate housing conditions?	access to the practice of religion?
In your opinion, a priority need for asylum seekers is…
to increase access to employment?	to improve access to somatic care?
to increase access to vocational training?	to improve access to dental care?
to increase access to legal aid?	to improve access to psychiatric care?
to improve housing conditions?
4. Barriers to access to mental healthcare:   In your opinion, what are the reasons for not consulting?
Trivializing of mental suffering	Fear of lack of confidentiality of consultations
Negative opinion of psychiatry	Previous negative psychiatric experience
Fear of being stigmatized by one’s community	Fear of receiving medication with side effects
Lack of information on the existing mental health care services available	Fear of involuntary hospitalization
	Fear of being penalized in one’s application for asylum
Complexity of the healthcare network	Fear of being discriminated against by caregivers

Abbreviation: AS asylum seekers