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Table 1 Characteristics of respondents according to care seeking

From: Health care seeking among detained undocumented migrants: a cross-sectional study

 

Total sample

n = 122

Care seekers

n = 57

Non-care seekers

n = 65

p-value †

Mean age (SD)

33.2 (9.1)

34.9 (9.7)

31.7 (8.3)

0.06

Mean length of stay in years (SD)

8.2 (6.3)

9.8 (7.2)

6.8 (5.1)

0.01*

Region of origin#

    

   Sub-Saharan Africa (%)

41 (33.6)

22 (38.6)

19 (29.2)

0.28

   North Africa (%)

32 (26.2)

19 (33.3)

13 (20.2)

0.09

   Asia (%)

21 (17.2)

2 (3.5)

19 (29.2)

0.000***

   Middle East (%)

16 (13.1)

9 (15.7)

7 (10.7)

0.41

   Latin America (%)

11 (9.0)

5 (8.7)

6 (9.2)

0.93

   Eastern Europe (%)

1 (0.8)

0

1 (1.5)

-

  1. *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001, † based on two-sided analysis; independent samples t-test for continuous data, chi-square test for discrete data;
  2. # Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Burundi, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia, Mauretania, Nigeria, Ruanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Chad; North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia; Asia: China, India, Indonesia, Nepal; Middle East: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey; Latin America: Colombia, Cuba, Guyana, Suriname; Eastern Europe: Georgia.