Table 2.
Health problems in the population of school-age refugees.
| Problem | Symptom | All (N = 609) |
Accompanied (N = 344) |
Unaccompanied (N = 265) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | p-Value 1 | ||
| Health care needs | |||||
| Immediate referral | 2.6 | 1.2 | 4.5 | < 0.01 | |
| School health team | 27.6 | 19.2 | 38.5 | < 0.001 | |
| Mental health | |||||
| Sleeping problems | 23.0 | 15.4 | 32.8 | < 0.001 | |
| Symptoms associated with post traumatic stress | 12.8 | 5.8 | 21.8 | < 0.001 | |
| Other mental health problems | 4.1 | 2.6 | 6.0 | < 0.01 | |
| Disabilities/ Chronic disorder | |||||
| Daily medication | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.5 | ns | |
| Impaired vision | 18.6 | 17.5 | 18.8 | ns | |
| Impaired hearing | 8.2 | 5.5 | 11.8 | < 0.05 | |
| Other disabilities | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.5 | ns | |
| Dental health | |||||
| Pain | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| All untreated caries | 48.1 | 47.6 | 48.7 | ns |
1 = p-value of the difference between accompanied and unaccompanied in the chi-square test.