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Table 1 Study and socio-demographic characteristics, WHOQOL-Bref scores of respondents belonging to the general population of refugees

From: Health-related quality of life of refugees: a systematic review of studies using the WHOQOL-Bref instrument in general and clinical refugee populations in the community setting

 

Abdo et al. (2019) [50]

Alduraidi et al. (2017) [51]

Crea et al. (2015) [52]

Georgiadou et al. (2020) [53]

Horta et al. (2019) [54]

Redko et al. (2015) [55]

Study characteristics

 Study location

Al-Husun, Jordan

Abu Nsair, Jordan

Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa

Erlangen, Germany

Brazil

Columbus, Ohio (USA)

 Recruiting method

registry-based

field-based

registry-based

registry-based

snowball sampling

field-based

 Year of data collection

Feb-Aug 2017

Oct- Nov 2015

June 2012- Aug 2013

July- Dec 2017

Aug 2016- April 2018

Sept 2012- June 2013

SAMPLE characteristics

 Size

655

91

334

119

31

303

 Gender (n, %)

  Male

266 (40.6%)

44 (48.4%)

170 (50.9%)

71 (59.7%)

3 (9.7%)

157 (51.8%)

  Female

389 (59.4%)

47 (51.6%)

149 (44.9%) (a)

48 (40.3%)

28 (90.3%)

146 (48.2%)

 Age mean (SD)

36.0 (14,4)

38.82 (−)

46.5 (−)

 Marital status (n, %)

  Married

586 (89.4%)

60 (65.9%)

119 (100%)

164 (54.1%) (c)

  Non married (b)

69 (10.6%)

31 (34.1%)

0

129 (42.6%)

 Country of origin

Syrian

Palestine

Diverse

Syrian

Diverse from Africa

Somalia

 Country of destination

Jordan

Jordan

South Africa

Germany

Brazil

USA

WHOQOL-Bref mean (SD)

 Physical health

50.68 (−)

64.4 (18.0)

58.9 (17.5)

73.10 (−)

56.9 (−)

44.69 (18.30)

 Psychological health

49.35 (−)

56.5 (19.5)

65.39 (−)

52.9 (−)

52.83 (18.44)

 Social relationships

49.82 (−)

58.3 (21.5)

68.38 (−)

56.3 (−)

50.04 (20.36)

 Environment domain

47.37 (−)

51.3 (15.3)

38.0 (14.9)

60.45 (−)

38.0 (−)

46.32 (16.87)

  1. WHOQOL-Bref, World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment in its short version, scaled 1–100, with domains for physical health, psychological health, social relationship and environmental domains. For each domain the mean score of WHOQOL-Bref is reported and, when available, the standard error
  2. (a) 15 (4.2%) missing information regarding gender
  3. (b) “non-married” comprises single, divorced and widowed
  4. (c) 10 respondents didn’t provide information regarding their marital status