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Table 2 Percentage of respondents who received help by country of birth and frequency of help received

From: Predictors of professional help-seeking for emotional problems in Afghan and Iraqi refugees in Australia: findings from the Building a New Life in Australia Database

Variables outcomes

Total (n = 1268)

Iraq (n = 791)

Afghanistan (n = 477)

Help Received

n

% [CI]

n

% [CI]

n

% [CI]

 Received help since arrival

478

36.4 [33.8, 39.1]

297

35.9 [32.6, 39.4]

181

37.2 [32.9, 41.7]

 Did not receive help

790

63.6 [60.9, 66.2]

494

64.1 [60.6, 67.4]

296

62.8 [58.3,67.1]

Among those who received help since arrival

Total (n = 474)a

Iraq (n = 293)

Afghanistan (n = 181)

 

n

% [CI]

n

% [CI]

n

% [CI]

 Received help in the last 12 months

400

83.8 [80.0, 87.0]

251

84.9 [80.0, 88.8]

149

81.9 [75.4, 87.0]

 Didn’t receive help in last 12 months

74

16.21 [13.0, 20.0]

42

15.1 [11.2, 20.0]

32

18.1 [13.0, 24.6]

Among those who received help in the last 12 months

Total (n = 400)

Iraq (n = 251)

Afghanistan (n = 149)

 Frequency received help last 12 months

n

% [CI]

n

% [CI]

n

% [CI]

 1 or 2 times

105

28.5 [24.1, 33.4]

58

24.6 [19.5, 30.6]

47

35.3 [27.6, 43.8]

 3–5 times

89

22.1 [18.3, 26.6]

56

22.2 [17.4, 27.8]

33

22.1 [16.0, 29.7]

 6–9 times

77

19.7 [16.0, 24.0]

49

19.8 [15.3, 25.4]

28

19.5 [13.7, 27.0]

 10 or more times

117

29.6 [25.2, 34.4]

83

33.4 [27.7, 39.6]

34

23.1 [16.8, 30.9]

  1. BNLA, Wave 3; weighted percentages; sample n. CI: confidence interval. Excludes 20 participants who did not report whether they received help. a Excludes 4 participants from Iraq who responded ‘prefer not to say’ (n = 2), ‘don’t know’ (n = 1) or ‘does not apply’ (n = 1) in this question