Higher chronic stress and less satisfaction with GP communication in migrants with unemployment experience: data from the representative German DEGS1 and the GPCare-1 study

Offenberg, Luisa K.; Sommer, Samira T.; Schmidt, Manuela; Kasten, Stefanie; Bockheim, Florian; Gavrilov, Boris; Hunzelar, Carmen; Ikar, Nur; Oberholz, Maja P. S.; Paños-Willuhn, Joana L.; Weltermann, Birgitta

doi:10.1186/s12875-022-01691-1

Table 1 DEGS1 population in working age: Characteristics of participants stratified by unemployment experience (past 5 years)

From: Higher chronic stress and less satisfaction with GP communication in migrants with unemployment experience: data from the representative German DEGS1 and the GPCare-1 study

	Total sample (N = 5938)			Individuals with unemployment experience in the past five years (N = 1170)			Individuals without unemployment experience in the past five years (N = 4490)			p-value
	N^a	%^a	95% CI	N^a	%^a	95% CI	N^a	%^a	95% CI	p-value
Sociodemographic
Age mean (standard deviation)	41.63 (13.06)		41.29–41.97	39.53 (12.66)		38.65–40.41	41.94 (13.13)		41.52–42.36	< 0.01
Gender (female)	3149	49.4	47.8–51.1	573	45.2	41.4–49.1	2417	50.1	48.3–51.9	0.02
Socioeconomic status										< 0.01
- Low	847	18.0	16.6–19.6	319	30.6	27.2–34.1	468	13.4	12.0–14.9
- Middle	3521	60.6	58.9–62.3	674	56.5	52.7–60.3	2730	62.4	60.5–64.2
- High	1506	21.4	19.7–23.1	177	12.9	10.5–15.7	1289	24.2	22.4–26.3
Number of underage individuals living in household, mean (standard deviation)	0.57 (0.90)		0.54–0.61	0.54 (0.9)		0.47–0.62	0.58 (0.9)		0.55–0.62	n.s.
Main breadwinner	3061	53.1	51.5–54.7
Migration
Migration background	900	21.6	19.4–24.0	248	31.6	27.6–36.0	622	18.5	16.4–20.9	< 0.01
First generation migrant	553	67.3	63.3–71.0
Non-German nationality	390	12.2	10.4–14.3
Self-reported little/poor knowledge of German	42	9.5	7.0–12.8
Unemployment
Currently unemployed	372	6.9	5.9–8.0
Was unemployed in past 5 years	1170	21.5	19.9–23.2
Health outcomes
Chronic stress, mean (standard deviation)	12.11 (7.98)		11.85–12.38	13.51 (8.72)		12.86–14.15	11.73 (7.70)		11.45–12.01	< 0.01
Chronic stress categorical										< 0.01
Below to average				548	44.9	41.2–48.6	2347	52.8	50.9–54.6
Above average				453	38.9	34.9–43.1	1683	37.8	36.1–39.5
High				158	16.2	13.6–19.3	445	9.4	8.5–10.5
At least one chronic disease	1501	24.4	23.0–26.0	329	27.8	24.6–31.3	1105	23.5	21.8–25.2	0.02
Has a general practitioner	5261	89.1	87.6–90.4	1049	87.7	84.6–90.3	4042	89.5	88.1–90.8	n.s.
- Number of GP visits during last 12 months, mean (standard deviation)	2.99 (4.54)		2.80–3.19	3.41 (5.06)		2.93–3.88	2.84 (4.13)		2.67–3.01	< 0.01

The sociodemographic and health characteristics of DEGS1 participants of working age (18–64 years old) were compared of individuals with and without experience of unemployment in the past 5 years
^an or percent unless noted otherwise

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