Table 4.
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) |
Physical health issues | ||||
None | 121 (92.4%) | 800 (91.7%) | 913 (90.8%) | 5528 (90.2%) |
One or more | 10 (7.6%) | 72 (8.3%) | 92 (9.2%) | 601 (9.8%) |
Global health | ||||
Very good to excellent | 54 (41.2%) | 452 (51.8%) | 539 (53.6%) | 3279 (53.5%) |
Good | 45 (34.4%) | 301 (34.5%) | 338 (33.6%) | 2089 (34.1%) |
Fair to poor | 32 (24.4%) | 120 (13.8%) | 128 (12.7%) | 761 (12.4%) |
Alcohol use | ||||
Abstain to occasional | 84 (64.1%) | 426 (48.9%) | 206 (20.5%) | 1277 (20.8%) |
Light (<2 drinks/day) | 44 (33.6%) | 380 (43.6%) | 573 (57.0%) | 3463 (56.5%) |
Moderate to harmful (>3 drinks/day to >6 drinks/day) | 3 (2.3%) | 66 (7.6%) | 226 (22.5%) | 1389 (22.7%) |
Cigarette smoking | ||||
Do not smoke at all/less than once per day | 78 (59.5%) | 674 (77.3%) | 814 (81.0%) | 4786 (78.1%) |
At least once a day | 53 (40.5%) | 198 (22.7%) | 191 (19.0%) | 1343 (21.9%) |
BMI status | ||||
Underweight | 18 (13.7%) | 60 (6.9%) | 42 (4.2%) | 147 (2.4%) |
Normal weight | 41 (31.3%) | 333 (38.2%) | 313 (31.1%) | 1675 (27.3%) |
Overweight | 47 (35.9%) | 376 (43.1%) | 478 (47.6%) | 3074 (50.2%) |
Obese | 25 (19.1%) | 103 (11.8%) | 172 (17.1%) | 1233 (20.1%) |