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Table 1 Characteristics of social ecological risk-factors among Syrian refugee women in Jordan

From: Mental health of clinic-attending Syrian refugee women in Jordan: associations between social ecological risks factors and mental health symptoms

  

Depression (n = 507)

Anxiety (n = 503)

Post-traumatic stress disorder (n = 506)

Total (n = 507)

Participants not meeting depression criteria (n = 188)

Participants meeting depression criteria (n = 319)

Chi-square or T-test

Participants not meeting anxiety criteria (n = 214)

Participants meeting anxiety criteria (n = 289)

Chi-square or T-test

Participants not meeting PTSD criteria (n = 171)

Participants meeting PTSD criteria (n = 335)

Chi-square or T-test

n(%) or \({\overline{\text{x}}}\) (SD)

n(%) or \({\overline{\text{x}}}\) (SD)

n(%) or \({\overline{\text{x}}}\) (SD)

n(%) or \({\overline{\text{x}}}\) (SD)

n(%) or \({\overline{\text{x}}}\) (SD)

n(%) or \({\overline{\text{x}}}\) (SD)

n(%) or \({\overline{\text{x}}}\) (SD)

Individual risk factors

          

Age (SD)

34.15 (10.99)

32.21 (10.50)

35.30 (11.13)

p = 0.002a

31.39 (9.61)

36.23 (11.46)

p < 0.001a

31.54 (10.21)

35.43 (11.11)

p < 0.001a

Marriage status (%)

          

 Unmarried

50 (9.86)

12 (6.38)

38 (11.91)

p = 0.044

15 (7.01)

34 (11.76)

p = 0.075

11 (6.43)

38 (11.34)

p = 0.077

 Married

457 (90.14)

176 (93.62)

281 (88.09)

 

199 (92.99)

255 (88.24)

 

160 (93.57)

297 (88.66)

 

Children under 18 in Household (SD)

3.39 (2.08)

3.40 (1.94)

3.39 (2.16)

p = 0.971a

3.25 (1.89)

3.52 (2.21)

p = 0.155a

3.14 (1.89)

3.53 (2.16)

p = 0.0434a

Ability to read and write with ease (%)

          

 No

439 (86.59)

166 (88.30)

273 (85.58)

p = 0.386

184 (85.98)

251 (86.85)

p = 0.778

145 (84.80)

293 (87.46)

p = 0.405

 Yes

68 (13.41)

22 (11.70)

46 (14.42)

 

30 (14.02)

38 (13.15)

 

26 (15.20)

42 (12.54)

 

Interpersonal risk factors

          

Past year physical and/or sexual IPV (%)

          

 Yes

173 (34.12)

37 (19.68)

136 (42.63)

p < 0.001

43 (20.09)

129 (44.64)

p < 0.001

22 (12.87)

151 (45.07)

p < 0.001

 No

334 (65.88)

151 (80.32)

183 (57.37)

 

171 (79.91)

160 (55.36)

 

149 (87.13)

184 (54.93)

 

Community and societal risk factors

          

Number of postmigration stressors (SD) n = 494

7.43 (2.98)

5.94 (2.91)

8.32 (2.65)

p < 0.001a

6.16 (3.15)

8.40 (2.44)

p < 0.001a

5.49 (2.99)

8.46 (2.41)

p < 0.001a

Covariates

          

Years in Jordan (SD)

5.18 (1.38)

5.20 (1.38)

5.17 (1.38)

p = 0.796a

5.01 (1.29)

5.32 (1.42)

p = 0.0129a

5.06 (1.29)

5.24 (1.42)

p = 0.918a

Time displaced in Syria (SD) n = 504

          

Less than 1 month

201 (39.88)

90 (48.39)

111 (34.91)

 

95 (44.60)

105 (36.59)

 

80 (47.06)

121 (36.34)

 

 1 month–less than 1 year

147 (29.17)

51 (27.42)

96 (30.19)

p = 0.007

66 (30.99)

80 (27.87)

p = 0.026

47 (27.65)

100 (30.03)

p = 0.050

 1 year or longer

156 (30.95)

45 (24.19)

111 (34.91)

 

52 (24.41)

102 (35.54)

 

43 (25.29)

112 (33.63)

 

Clinic location (%)

          

 Amman

153 (30.18)

72 (38.30)

81 (25.39)

 

87 (40.65)

64 (22.15)

 

71 (41.52)

82 (24.48)

 

 Zarqa

100 (19.72)

47 (25.00)

53 (16.61)

p < 0.001

50 (23.36)

50 (17.30)

p < 0.001

42 (24.56)

58 (17.31)

p < 0.001

 Mafraq

126 (24.85)

30 (15.96)

96 (30.09)

 

36 (16.82)

89 (30.08)

 

31 (18.13)

94 (28.06)

 

 Ramtha

128 (25.25)

39 (20.74)

89 (27.90)

 

41 (19.16)

86 (29.76)

 

27 (15.79)

101 (30.15)

 

Governorate of origin in Syria (%)

          

 Aleppo or Idlib

96 (18.93)

35 (18.62)

61 (19.12)

 

40 (18.69)

55 (19.03)

 

31 (18.13)

64 (19.10)

 

 Al-Raqqah, Deir ez-Zor, or Hasaka

54 (10.65)

32 (17.02)

22 (6.90)

 

35 (16.36)

18 (6.23)

 

30 (17.54)

24 (7.16)

 

 Damascus or Rif Dimashq

60 (11.83)

27 (14.36)

33 (10.34)

p = 0.002

27 (12.62)

33 (11.42)

p = 0.005

21 (12.28)

39 (11.64)

p = 0.001

 As-Suwayda, Daraa or Qunitra

182 (35.90)

59 (31.38)

123 (38.56)

 

66 (30.84)

115 (39.79)

 

46 (26.90)

136 (40.60)

 

 Hama or Homs

115 (22.68)

35 (18.62)

80 (25.08)

 

46 (21.50)

68 (23.53)

 

43 (25.15)

72 (21.49)

 
  1. Chi-square test used unless otherwise noted; significant p-values (p < .05) are highlighted in bold
  2. SD standard deviation
  3. aT-test used