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

Table 6 GPCare-1 (multivariate analysis): Relation of patient characteristics with “enough space to describe personal strains” (n = 811)

Parameter	Odds Ratio	95%-CI	p-value
Male (Ref. female)	0.98	0.75–1.28	n.s.
Age (in years)	1.01	1.00–1.02	n.s.
Has chronic illness (Ref. no chronic illness)	1.07	0.78–1.47	n.s.
Migration background (Ref. no migration background)	0.69	0.51–0.95	0.02
Unemployment experience (Ref. no unemployment experience)	0.76	0.55–1.05	n.s.
Chronic stress	0.99	0.97–1.00	n.s.
Secondary modern school (Ref. no schooling completed)	0.78	0.31–1.99	n.s.
O-levels (Ref. no schooling completed)	0.67	0.25–1.77	n.s.
High school degree (Ref. no schooling completed)	0.89	0.34–2.29	n.s.
Vocational degree (Ref. no schooling completed)	0.73	0.29–1.80	n.s.
University degree (Ref. no schooling completed)	0.59	0.23–1.47	n.s.

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