Table 2 Description of the studies in the comparative analysis (n = 93)
From: Use of health services among international migrant children – a systematic review
Number (%) | |
|---|---|
Continent of receiving country | |
Europe | 54 (58%) |
North America | 34 (37%) |
Asia | 3 (3%) |
Australia | 2 (2%) |
Theme (combinations possible) | |
General access/having a usual source of care | 27 (29%) |
Vaccines | 19 (22%) |
Mental health | 16 (17%) |
Hospital or ER use | 15 (16%) |
Oral health | 14 (15%) |
Primary care use | 12 (13%) |
Other | 2 (2%) |
Study population characteristics | |
Sample size | |
Sample size < 200 | 8 (9%) |
Sample size 200–10.000 | 46 (50%) |
Sample size > 10.000 | 39 (42%) |
Type of migrants | |
Not specified or mixed | 85 (91%) |
Refugee only | 8 (9%) |
Labour only | 0 |
Generation of migrants | |
Not specified or mixed | 13 (14%) |
Only first-generation migrants | 16 (17%) |
Only second-generation migrants | 64 (69%) |
Age range | |
< 7 years only | 14 (15%) |
12–18 years only | 11 (12%) |
Other or all children 0–18 years | 68 (73%) |
Origin of migrants | |
All or several countries | 37 (40%) |
Hispanic | 6 (6%) |
Asian | 2 (2%) |
African | 1 (1%) |
Non-Western/Less developed countries | 3 (3%) |
Western countries | 1 (1%) |
Turkey | 1 (1%) |
Chile | 1 (1%) |
North Korea | 1 (1%) |
Not specified | 41 (44%) |
Methodological characteristics | |
Study design | |
Cross-sectional | 76 (82%) |
Longitudinal (prospective, retrospective) | 17 (18%) |
Study representativeness | |
Regional | 60 (65%) |
National | 33 (35%) |
Data source (combinations possible) | |
Register or other routine data | 44 (47%) |
National survey | 29 (31%) |
Questionnaire to a targeted study population | 26 (28%) |
Other | 7 (8%) |
Type of source (combinations possible) | |
Register or other routine data | 39 (42%) |
Parent-report | 36 (39%) |
Self-report | 13 (14%) |
Other (e.g. blood sample) | 7 (8%) |
Confounding variables adjusted for (combinations possible) | |
Sex | 45 (48%) |
Age | 44 (47%) |
Education of parents | 22 (24%) |
Income of parents | 15 (16%) |
Other SES of parents | 15 (16%) |
Need indicators (health status) | 15 (16%) |
Insurance | 14 (15%) |
Ethnicity | 10 (11%) |
Language spoken at home | 6 (6%) |
Parental attitudes or beliefs | 5 (5%) |
None | 24 (26%) |