Near-death experiences, attacks by family members, and absence of health care in their home countries affect the quality of life of refugee women in Germany: a multi-region, cross-sectional, gender-sensitive study

Table 3 Comparison between quality of life in the study population and a European reference sample

	Mean FRS	SD FRS	Mean Europe	SD Europe	df	t	p
How would you rate your quality of life?	2.92	1.05	3.68	0.82	5506	21.55	<0.0001
How satisfied are you with your health?	3.01	1.25	3.6	0.96	5503	14.2	<0.0001
Do you have enough energy for everyday life?	3.42	1.27	3.8	0.91	5505	9.53	<0.0001
How satisfied are you with your ability to perform your daily activities?	3.57	1.28	3.79	0.87	5504	5.7	<0.0001
How satisfied are you with yourself?	3.71	1.33	3.66	0.88	5501	–1.27	0.2
How satisfied are you with your personal relationships?	3.97	1.24	3.89	0.84	5496	–2.14	0.03
Have you enough money to meet your needs?	2.82	1.17	3.14	1.09	5502	6.99	<0.0001
How satisfied are you with the conditions of your living place?	2.47	1.34	3.89	0.97	5504	33.45	<0.0001
Total	3.23	0.78	3.68	0.62	5508	16.9	<0.0001

FRS Female Refugee Study, SD standard deviation, df degrees of freedom
EUROHIS-QOL uses a 5-point Likert scale: very bad (1), bad (2), intermediate (3), good (4), very good (5) [21]
Data for Europe are extracted from Schmidt et al. [24]

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