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Table 3 Comparison of mental health symptoms between Iraqi and Somali refugee mothers

From: Mental health and access to care among refugee mothers relocated to San Diego: a comparative study of Iraqi and Somali refugee communities

 

Iraqi (N = 219)

Somali (N = 198)

Mean difference (95% CI)

P value*

HSCL-25 total mean (SD)

1.71 (0.65)

1.37 (0.56)

0.34 (0.22, 0.46)

< 0.001

HSCL-25 depression (Part II) mean (SD)

1.74 (0.62)

1.35 (0.56)

0.38 (0.27, 0.50)

< 0.001

Proportion emotionally distressed, no (%)a

75 (34.56)

38 (19.19)

–

< 0.001

Proportion with major depression, no (%)b

132 (60.83)

53 (26.77)

–

< 0.001

  1. Higher scores indicate worse mental health symptoms
  2. Abbreviations: HSCL-25 Hopkins Symptoms Checklist-25, CI confidence interval, SD standard deviation
  3. a‘Emotionally distressed’ was classified as total score > 1.75
  4. b‘Major depression’ was classified as an average score of > 1.45 on the depression section (HSCL-25 Part II)
  5. *Two-tailed P value calculated by independent samples t test for continuous variables (HSCL-25 scores) and chi-squared tests for proportions of distressed respondents
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