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Table 4 Quality of life (World Health Organization quality of life Instrument, Short Form) version domains components of Syrian refugees in Germany in 2018–2020 according to asylum duration

From: Quality of life among Syrian refugees in Germany: a cross-sectional pilot study

Domains’ components

Group 1

<  1 year

n = 27

Group2

1–3 years

n = 32

Group3

>  3 years

n = 55

  

Median

(25–75% percentile)

Median

(25–75% percentile)

Median

(25–75% percentile)

P-value

Spearman Rho r1

Psychological domain

 f5: Enjoying life

4.00 (3.00–4.00)

3.00 (3.00–4.00)

3.00 (3.00–4.00)

<  0.001*

−0.323**

 f7: Concentration ability

4.00 (3.00–4.00)

4.00 (3.00–4.00)

3.00 (3.00–4.00)

0.033*

−0.226**

Environment domain

 f12: Money availability

4.00 (3.00–4.00)

4.00 (3.50–5.00)

4.00 (3.00–4.00)

0.042*

−0.061

 f13: Information availability

4.00 (3.00–4.00)

4.00 (3.00–5.00)

4.00 (3.00–4.00)

0.026*

−0.234**

 f24: Healthcare access satisfaction

3.00 (2.00–4.00)

4.00 (3.00–3.00)

4.00 (4.00–4.00)

0.023*

0.219**

 f25: Transportation

4.00(4.00–4.00)

4.00(3.00–4.00)

4.00(3.00–4.00)

0.043*

− 0.206*

  1. *p-value < 0.05, ** Significant Spearman Rho r, 1 Spearman Rho r correlation between QOL-BREF questions and asylum duration, Total N = 114, NB: A score of 5 on the Likert scale means very satisfied or very good, and 1 means very dissatisfied or very poor [43]