Table 1 Characteristic of the study population: prevalence of outcome and explanatory factors
From: Immigrant background and medicine use for aches: national representative study of adolescents
Boys (n = 4674) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ethnic Danes | Descendants | Chi-sq test p value for similarity with ethnic Danes | Immigrants | Chi-sq test p value for similarity with ethnic Danes | |
(n = 4170) | (n = 244) | (n = 224) | |||
Last month prevalence of medicine use for (%) | |||||
Headache | 37.6 | 43.5 | 0.0734 | 44.4 | 0.0456 |
Stomach-ache | 8.3 | 16.4 | <.0001 | 12.1 | 0.0615 |
Reported symptoms monthly or more (%) | |||||
Headache | 38.1 | 32.2 | 0.0654 | 38.0 | 0.9633 |
Stomach-ache | 25.9 | 31.9 | 0.0426 | 29.3 | 0.2724 |
Girls (n = 4840) | |||||
Danes | Descendants | Chi-sq test p value for similarity with ethnic Danes | Immigrants | Chi-sq test p value for similarity with ethnic Danes | |
(n = 4310) | (n = 264) | (n = 232) | |||
Last month prevalence of medicine use for (%) | |||||
Headache | 51.1 | 47.4 | 0.2456 | 54.7 | 0.3009 |
Stomach-ache | 21.6 | 27.0 | 0.0487 | 30.4 | 0.0025 |
Reported symptoms monthly or more (%) | |||||
Headache | 51.0 | 46.4 | 0.1555 | 47.3 | 0.2772 |
Stomach-ache | 46.9 | 50.9 | 0.2115 | 51.5 | 0.1778 |