Mental health and resilience among Eritrean refugees at arrival and one-year post-registration in Switzerland: a cohort study

Table 2 Mental health screening results at baseline (N = 107)

Screening for	Tests	Cut-off	Interpretation	Baseline (N = 107)
Screening for	Tests	Cut-off	Interpretation	Score (N: %)		Median (IQR*)
		0	No risk	40	37.4	NA
		1 to 7	Low risk	48	44.9	3 (2–5)
Alcohol use	AUDIT¹	8 to 15	Risk/ hazardous	18	16.8	11 (9–13)
		16 to19	High risk/ harmful	1	0.9	NA
		> 20	Almost certainly alcohol dependent	0	0	NA
Somatic symptoms	PHQ-15²	≥ 10		11	10.3	11 (11–12)
Anxiety disorder	GAD-7³	≥ 10	Moderate and above ^‡	11	10.3	10 (10–11)
Depression	PHQ-9⁴	≥ 10		16	15.0	11 (11–13)
Post-trauma stress disorder	PTSD⁵	≥ 30	Symptoms of PTSD	52	48.6	35 (31–39.5)
		< 65	Low resilience	6	5.6	59.5 (56–60)
Resilience scale	RS-14⁶	65 to 80	Moderate resilience	37	34.6	76.0 (73–78)
		≥ 81	High resilience	64	59.8	88.0 (86–92)

AUDIT¹ = Alcohol use disorders identification test
PHQ-15² = Patient health questionnaire-15
GAD³ = Generalized anxiety disorder-7
PHQ-9⁴ = Patient Health quationnaire-9
PTSD⁵ = Post-traumatic stress disorder
RS-14⁶ = Resilience scale-14
IQR^* = Interquartile range
^‡ = This applies for all three screening tools. The cut-offs for mild, moderate and severe conditions are 5, 10, and 15, respectively

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