Table 2.

Descriptive statistics (unadjusted) for psychological distress measured by the Kessler-6 for each father group when their children were aged 4–5 years

Outcomes	Refugee (n=131)	Migrated from a non-English-speaking country (n=872)	Migrated from an English-speaking country (n=1005)	Born in Australia (n=6129)
Psychological distress (continuous score), mean	9.03	6.4	5.5	5.2
Psychological distress (cut points)
Normal range (<7), n (%)	57 (43.5%)	554 (63.5%)	739 (73.5%)	4590 (74.9%)
Symptomatic or clinical cut point (8+), n (%)	74 (56.5%)	318 (36.5%)	266 (26.5%)	1539 (25.1%)