Table 4.
Patient-surgeon communication
| Moroccan N = 52 |
Turkish N = 26 |
Total N = 78 |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Very) satisfied with care of surgeon | 90.4% (47) | 88.5% (23) | 89.7% (70) | NS |
| (Very) satisfied with information provided by surgeon | 86.5% (45) | 88.4% (23) | 87.2% (68) | NS |
| Having difficulties understanding surgeona | 70.6% (36) | 65.4% (17) | 68.8% (53) | NS |
| One or more visits being translatedb | 71.9% (23/35) | 82.6% (19/23) | 76.4% (42/55) | NS |
| Had been offered professional translatorb | 9.7% (3/31) | 30.0% (6/20) | 17.7% (9/51) | – |
| Want professional translatorb | 25.8% (8/31) | 35.0% (7/20) | 29.4% (15/51) | NS |
| Trust Dutch doctors most Trust Turkish/Moroccan doctors most Same |
38.8% (19) 4.1% (2) 57.1% (28) |
27.3% (6) 9.1% (2) 63.6% (14) |
35.2% (25) 5.6% (4) 59.2% (42) |
– |
NS not significant
aHaving a translator is recorded as having difficulties in understanding the surgeon
bSelection of the women who were (partly) interviewed in the language of origin