Exploring strategies to reach individuals of Turkish and Moroccan origin for health checks and lifestyle advice: a mixed-methods study

Table 4 Preferences regarding source of invitation and location to fill out a health check questionnaire. The table presents the percentage (with 95 % confidence interval) of participants that chose that option; one option should be chosen

	Turks (n = 142)	Moroccans (n = 102)	p*
By whom would participants like to be invited for a health check
GP	50 % (41; 59)	66 % (57; 76)	0.001^a
Specialist/hospital	41 % (32; 50)	18 % (10; 25)
Municipal institution/Community health service	2 % (0; 5)	7 % (2; 12)
Other	0 %	5 % (1;10)
Don’t know	7 % (3; 12)	5 % (1;9)
Preferred location to fill out a health check questionnaire
At GP’s office	40 % (32; 48)	39 % (30; 49)	0.48^b
At home, with pen and paper	23 % (16; 29)	23 % (15; 30)
At the specialist’s/in the hospital	20 % (14; 27)	13 % (6; 19)
Via internet	8 % (4; 14)	9 % (4; 15)
In the mosque	2 % (0; 5)	2 % (0; 5)
In the community centre	1 % (0; 4)	0 %
At community health service	0 %	4 % (1; 8)
At other medical healthcare provider	0 %	0 %
Other	1 % (0; 2)	2 % (0; 5)
No preference	5 % (1; 9)	9 % (3; 15)

* p-value of Pearson Chi-Square tests
^aThe categories ‘Other’ and ‘ Don’t know’ were combined in order to comply to the assumptions of the Pearson Chi-Square test
^bThe categories ‘In the mosque’, ‘In the community centre’, ‘At community health service’, ‘At other medical healthcare provider’ and ‘Other’ were combined to comply to the assumptions of the Pearson Chi-Square test

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