Table 1 Demographics of Arabic, Dari, and Pashto participants including age, age at immigration, number of children, marital status, ability to read/write in English, ability to read/write in preferred language, education level, country of birth, race/ethnicity, and insurance status
From: Reproductive health literacy scale: a tool to measure the effectiveness of health literacy training
Total n = 184 | Arabic n = 53 | Dari n = 67 | Pashto n = 64 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Current age (range 18–64 years) | ||||
Mean (SD) | 35.4 (11.1) | 36.3 (12.2) | 33.9 (11.3) | 36.3 (9.9) |
Age at immigration | ||||
Mean (SD) | 31.3 (13.0) | 30.4 (13.4) | 30.2 (13.4) | 33.1 (12.4) |
# of children (range 0–9 children) | ||||
Mean (SD) | 3.2 (2.5) | 2.8 (2.2) | 2.8 (2.6) | 4.0 (2.5) |
Marital status (n, %) | ||||
Married/domestic partnership | 119 (64.7) | 29 (54.7) | 40 (59.7) | 50 (78.1) |
Single, widowed, divorced | 42 (22.8) | 17 (32.1) | 17 (25.4) | 8 (12.5) |
Read/write in English (n, %) | ||||
Can only read, only write, or can do both | 120 (65.1) | 45 (85.0) | 44 (65.7) | 31 (48.5) |
Neither | 60 (32.6) | 8 (15.1) | 22 (32.8) | 30 (46.9) |
Read/write in preferred language (n, %) | ||||
Can only read, only write, or can do both | 152 (82.7) | 52 (98.1) | 61 (91.0) | 39 (61.0) |
Neither | 29 (15.8) | 1 (1.9) | 6 (9.0) | 22 (34.4) |
Education level (n, %) | ||||
Up to high school | 136 (73.9) | 29 (54.7) | 46 (68.7) | 61 (95.3) |
Some college or above | 43 (23.4) | 23 (43.4) | 20 (29.9) | 0 (0.0) |
Country of birth (n, %) | ||||
Afghanistan | 116 (62.4) | 0 (0.0) | 62 (92.5) | 54 (81.8) |
Syria | 33 (17.7) | 33 (62.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
United States | 5 (2.7) | 5 (9.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Other (including Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, etc.) | 8 (4.3) | 6 (11.4) | 2 (3.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Race/ethnicity (n, %) | ||||
Asian | 116 (63.0) | 9 (17.0) | 54 (80.6) | 53 (82.8) |
Middle Eastern/North African | 33 (17.9) | 31 (58.5) | 2 (3.0) | 0 (0.0) |
White | 13 (7.1) | 6 (11.3) | 3 (4.5) | 4 (6.3) |
Black/other race | 22 (11.9) | 7 (13.2) | 8 (11.9) | 7 (10.9) |
Insurance (n, %) | ||||
Medicaid/Medi-Cal | 155 (84.3) | 40 (75.5) | 53 (79.1) | 62 (96.9) |
None | 6 (3.2) | 2 (3.8) | 3 (4.5) | 1 (1.6) |
Other | 18 (9.7) | 11 (20.7) | 7 (10.5) | 0 (0.0) |