Baseline characteristics of participating caregivers and interview context
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| Participant characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Country of origin | Tibet | Eritrea | Afghanistan | Eritrea | Syria | Afghanistan | Syria | Iraq | Albania | Syria | Macedonia | Syria | Syria |
| Age of child | 1–5 | 1–5 | <1 | >10 | 1–5 | 1–5 | 1–5 | 6–10 | 1–5 | <1 | 1–5 | 1–5 | 6–10 |
| Main department visited | OPD | OPD | OPD | OPD | OPD | OPD | OPD | Emergency | Emergency | Emergency | Emergency | Emergency | OPD |
| Age of caregiver | 40–49 | 30–39 | 20–29 | 30–39 | 20–29 | 10–19 | 20–29 | 30–39 | 30–39 | 30–39 | 30–39 | 30–39 | 40–49 |
| Sex of caregiver | Male | Male | Female | Female | Female | Female | Female | Female | Female | Female | Male | Female | Male |
| Education level of caregiver* | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Years in CH | 6–10 | 1–5 | 1–5 | 1–5 | 1–5 | <1 | <1 | 1–5 | 6–10 | <1 | <1 | 1–5 | <1 |
| Mother tongue | Tibetan | Tigrinya | Dari | Saho | Arabic | Farsi | Arabic | Kurdish | Albanian | Arabic | Macedonian | Arabic | Arabic |
| Other language (level)† | English (C) | English (A) | German (A) | Arabic (C) | Kurdish (C) | – | – | German (B) | German (B) | – | German (C) | English (C) | – |
| Interview context | |||||||||||||
| Interpreter present | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Gender preference | n/a | No | Female | No | No | Female | No | n/a | n/a | Female | n/a | n/a | No |
| Interview location‡ | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Interview duration (min) | 49 | 36 | 70 | 92 | 68 | 50 | 57 | 52 | 59 | 79 | 44 | 64 | 77 |
| Number and (type) of non-participants | 2 (wife, child) | 0 | 3 (husband, children) | 4 (husband, children) | 2 (coach, child) | 0 | 3 (husband, children) | 1 (child) | 1 (child) | 0 | 0 | 2 (child, student) | 1 (wife) |
The results are presented in two sections, focusing on challenges and good practice reports.
*Education levels: 1=illiterate, 2=primary education, 3=secondary education, 4=university degree.
†Language levels: A=basic user, B=independent user, C=proficient user.
‡Interview location: 1=accommodation and provisioning centre, 2=hospital, 3=participants’ apartment.
CH, Switzerland; n/a, not applicable; OPD, outpatient department other than emergency.