Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study population
From: The use of intercultural interpreter services at a pediatric emergency department in Switzerland
| Â | Pre-intervention | Post-intervention | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristics | Study population (all families) n = 892a | Families with limited language proficiency (ABC positive) n = 127a | Language-proficient families (ABC negative) n = 519a | Study population (all families) n = 960a | Families with limited language proficiency (ABC positive) n = 135a | Language-proficient families (ABC negative) n = 633a | ||||||
n | IQR/% | n | IQR/% | n | IQR/% | n | IQR/% | n | IQR/% | n | IQR/% | |
Median age child (years) | 4.61 | 1.68–9.38 | 5.63 | 2.09–9.22 | 4.12 | 1.62–9.15 | 3.69 | 1.65–7.25 | 3.2 | 1.59–6.48 | 3.79 | 1.72–7.39 |
Male gender child | 489 | 54.8 | 74 | 58.3 | 290 | 55.9 | 520 | 54.2 | 66 | 48.9 | 339 | 53.6 |
Female gender child | 403 | 45.2 | 53 | 41.7 | 229 | 44.1 | 440 | 45.8 | 69 | 51.1 | 294 | 46.4 |
Most frequent nationalities | PT(n = 86) | 9.6 | SY (n = 30) | 23.6 | PT (n = 54) | 10.4 | ER (n = 96) | 10.0 | ER (n = 25) | 18.5 | MK(n = 57) | 9.0 |
IT (n = 77) | 8.6 | ER (n = 16) | 12.6 | KS (n = 47) | 9.1 | MK (n = 77) | 8.0 | SY (n = 20) | 14.8 | ER (n = 55) | 8.7 | |
KS (n = 76) | 8.5 | PT (n = 13) | 10.2 | MK (n = 45) | 8.7 | PT (n = 76) | 7.9 | AF (n = 13) | 9.6 | PT (n = 52) | 8.2 | |
MK (n = 65 | 7.3 | LK (n = 12) | 9.5 | IT (n = 42) | 8.1 | IT (n = 73) | 7.6 | IT (n = 12) | 8.9 | IT (n = 50) | 7.9 | |
Most frequent native languages | Albanian (n = 118) | 17.2 | Arabic (n = 30) | 23.6 | Albanian (n = 109) | 19.5 | Albanian (n = 117) | 13.9 | Tigrinya (n = 25) | 17.1 | Albanian (n = 105) | 15.1 |
Portuguese (n = 73) | 10.6 | Tigrinya (n = 15) | 11.8 | Portuguese (n = 59) | 10.6 | Arabic (n = 72) | 8.6 | Arabic (n = 23) | 15.6 | Portugese (n = 59) | 8.5 | |
Arabic (n = 65) | 9.5 | Portuguese (n = 14) | 11.0 | Arabic (n = 35) | 6.3 | Tigrynia (n = 70) | 8.3 | Italian (n = 14) | 9.6 | Kurdish (n = 52) | 7.5 | |
Kurdish (n = 41) | 6.0 | Tamil (n = 12) | 7.1 | Italian (n = 35) | 6.3 | Portuguese (n = 64) | 7.6 | Albanian (n = 12) | 8.2 | Arabic (n = 49) | 7.1 | |
Estimated language proficiency | ||||||||||||
 - A1 | 50 | 5.6 | 50 | 39.4 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 5.1 | 49 | 36.3 | 0 | 0 |
 - A2 | 72 | 8.1 | 72 | 56.7 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 8.1 | 78 | 57.8 | 0 | 0 |
 - B1 | 153 | 17.1 | 0 | 0 | 153 | 29.5 | 197 | 20.5 | 1 | 0.7 | 196 | 31.0 |
 - B2 | 145 | 16.2 | 0 | 0 | 145 | 27.9 | 206 | 21.5 | 0 | 0 | 206 | 32.5 |
 - C1 | 126 | 14.1 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 24.3 | 116 | 12.1 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 18.3 |
 - C2 | 95 | 10.7 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 18.3 | 112 | 11.7 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 17.7 |
 - missing | 251 | 28.1 | 5 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 202 | 21.0 | 7 | 5.2 | 3 | 0.5 |
Interpreter use | 14 | 2.8 | 14 | 11.0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2.1 | 20 | 14.8 | 0 | 0 |
 - on site | 9 | 64.3 | 9 | 64.3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 |
 - phone | 5 | 35.7 | 5 | 35.7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 95.0 | 19 | 95.0 | 0 | 0 |