Skip to main content
. 2012 Jul 2;6:8. doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-6-8

Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics, BMI and information on substance use of enrolled patients

  Outpatients (17) Remitted patients
Total (18) Discharged (11) Community (7)2
Age
36.5
36.4
38.2
33.7
(9.8)
(8.0)
(8.0)
(7.7)
Years of education2
6.9
5.6
4.9
6.6
(5.0)
(5.3)
(5.7)
(5.0)
Rating of economic situation index3
1.3
1.6
1.1
2.3
(1.1)
(1.0)
(0.9)
(0.8)
Objective index of economic situation4
1.9
2.1
1.7
2.8
(1.0)
(1.2)
(1.2)
(0.8)
Number of household members5
8.5
7.1
6.6
7.8
(3.0)
(3.9)
(4.1)
(2.9)
Currently married6
12%
33%
46%
14%
(2)
(6)
(5)
(1)
Refugee experience7
65%
69%
89%
43%
(11)
(11)
(8)
(3)
Combat exposure7
29%
44%
56%
29%
(5)
(7)
(5)
(2)
BMI at project start8
16.9
19.7
20.7
17.6
(3.5)
(2.9)
(3.1)
(1.2)
Lifetime khat use7
94.1%
100%
100%
100%
(16)
(17)
(10)
(7)
Age of onset of khat use9
15.8
17.3
17.1
17.6
(4.6)
(4.1)
(4.2)
(4.2)
Khat addiction (last year)10
70.0%
93.3%
100%
80.0%
(7)
(14)
(10)
(4)
Lifetime Alcohol use4 5.9%
18.8%
33.3%
0%
(1) (3) (3) (0)

Remitted patients comprise patients recruited at hospital discharge and in the community. The table reports means and standard deviations as well as percentages and N.

2 missing data: 17 outpatients, 17 remitted patients (10 discharged, 7 community).

3 missing data: 16 outpatients, 16 remitted patients (10 discharged, 6 community).

4 missing data: 17 outpatients, 16 remitted patients (10 discharged, 6 community).

5 missing data: 15 outpatients, 17 remitted patients (11 discharged, 6 community)

6 patients currently married as opposed to a composed category of being single, separated, divorced or widowed.

7 missing data: 17 outpatients, 16 remitted patients (9 discharged, 7 community).

8 missing data: 15 outpatients, 12 remitted patients (8 discharged, 4 community).

9 missing data: 15 outpatients, 17 remitted patients (10 discharged, 7 community).

10 missing data: 10 outpatients, 15 remitted patients (10 discharged, 5 community).