Table 3.
Distribution of different classes of anaemia among participants in the four fields
| Anaemia level | Gaza (N=959) | West Bank (N=469)* | Syria (N=347) | Lebanon (N=641) | Total fields (N=2416) | P value |
| Mild, n (%) | 171 (17.8) | 63 (13.4) | 53 (15.3) | 76 (11.9) | 363 (15.0) | <0.001 |
| Moderate, n (%) | 110 (11.5) | 40 (8.5) | 51 (14.7) | 40 (6.2) | 241 (10.0) | 0.007 |
| Severe, n (%) | – | – | – | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.0004) | 0.428 |
| Total anaemia | 281 (29.3) | 103 (22.0) | 104 (30.0) | 117 (18.3) | 605 (25) |
N means total; n means frequency.
χ2 test was applied and p<0.05 was considered significant.
*Three participants with missing data were found in West Bank.