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. 2020 Dec 18;17(24):9510. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17249510

Table 2.

Characteristics of Included Studies by hierarchy of evidence.

Author Year Study Type Sample Size Age in Years Host Country Country of Origin
[30] Hermans et al. 2017 Dynamic cohort 2291 18–38 Greece Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria
[21] Solyman and Schmidt-Westhausen 2018 Cross-sectional 386 18–60 Germany Iraq and Syria
[22] Kakalou et al. 2018 Cross-sectional: Descriptive 6688 0–75+ Greece Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, other regions: Africa, Asia and the Middle East
[6] Høyvik et al. 2019 Cross-sectional: Comparative 132 18–47 Norway Africa and The Middle East
[23] Goetz et al. 2018 Cross-sectional: Pilot 102 16–64 Germany Afghanistan, Armenia, Chechnya, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen
[24] Riatto et al. 2018 Cross-sectional 156 5–13 Spain Syria
[25] Pavlopoulou et al. 2017 Cross-sectional: Prospective 300 0–14 Greece Afghanistan, Bangladesh, DR Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan
[26] van Berlaer et al. 2016 Cross-sectional: Descriptive 3907 0–75+ Belgium Afghanistan Iraq, Morocco, Palestine and Syria
[20] Mattila et al. 2016 Cross-sectional: Pilot 38 17–53 Finland Afghanistan, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Russia, Slovakia, China, Somalia, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam
[27] Al-Ani et al. 2020 Cross-sectional 544 3–75+ Germany Mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, Others nationalities: African countries, Arabian countries, Asia and Eastern Europe
[29] Hjern and Kling 2019 Cross-sectional 639 6–15 Sweden Afghanistan and Syria
[28] Freiberg et al. 2020 Retrospective observational 568 20–34 Germany Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia and Syria
[13] Zaheer et al. 2017 Case report NS NS Greece Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria
[2] Williams et al. 2016 Case report NS NS European mainland and the UK Afghanistan, Albania, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq and Syria

Note: NS—Not specified.