Utilization of somatic specialist services among psychiatric immigrant patients: the Norwegian patient registry study

Table 4 Logistic regression estimates (marginal effects) showing age- and gender-adjusted predicted probabilities for the use of specialist healthcare for infectious diseases during 2008–2011 among psychiatric patients

Regions of origin	Specialist healthcare for infectious diseases
	Outpatient		Admission
	β (se)	95% CI	β (se)	95% CI
Norway	0.026 (0.001)	0.025–0.027	0.026 (0.001)	0.025–0.027
Western countries	0.028 (0.001)*	0.026–0.030	0.026 (0.002)	0.023–0.028
East Europe	0.027 (0.002)	0.023–0.032	0.018 (0.001)**	0.014–0.021
Africa	0.047 (0.004)***	0.039–0.055	0.034 (0.004)*	0.027–0.041
Asia	0.028 (0.001)	0.025–0.031	0.019 (0.001)***	0.016–0.021
Latin America	0.033 (0.003)*	0.026–0.041	0.027 (0.003)	0.020–0.035

Statistically significance values showing differences between immigrants and Norwegians (the reference group): *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. β (se) = predicted probabilities and robust standard error (in parenthesis) and are adjusted to age and gender. CI = confidence interval

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