Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants* (n=254)

Demographics	Patients (n)	Statistics (%)
Palestinian	254	100
Male	234	92
Children†	43	17
Female	20	8
Refugee status‡	154	57
Age—inclusion, years		28 (10)§
Age-injury, years		23 (9)§
Family income, NIS/US$¶
<700/220	76	30
800–1600/252–504	105	42
>1700/535	50	28
Employment
Unemployed	191	75
Unemployed due to amputation	112	44
≥3 unemployed family members	152	61
≥3 persons economically dependent on amputee	160	64

*Number of participants: 254, from 0% to 2% of the participants had missing data on any variable.

†Children refers to participant that were amputated at the age of 18 years or younger.

‡Refugee= patient is from a family who has formal UN refugee status as of 1948.

§Median and IQR.

¶NIS, New Israeli Shekel. 1 NIS equals US$0.26.