Quality-of-life among Syrian refugees residing outside camps in Jordan relative to Jordanians and other countries

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Sample and sampling procedure

Syrian refugees

Average socioeconomic status Jordanians

Low socioeconomic status Jordanians

Data Collection

Measures

Data management and statistical analysis

Ethical considerations

Results

Domain results

Physical health domain

Psychological health domain

Social relationships domain

General look at the QOL domains for each population

Discussion

Physical health

Psychological health

Social relationships

Environment

Syrian urban refugees in Jordan and other refugees

Limitations

Future Recommendations and Directions

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Syntax for QOL analyses.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6454/supp-1

Supplemental Table.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6454/supp-2

Anonymized raw data.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6454/supp-3

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Nour Abdo conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Faten Sweidan conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper.

Anwar Batieha conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) IRB 33/107/2017.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data and SPSS code are available as Supplemental Files.

Funding

This project was funded by the Deanship of Research at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Grant Number 20170218. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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