Research Article

Consultations between Immigrant Patients, Their Interpreters, and Their General Practitioners: Are They Real Meetings or Just Encounters? A Qualitative Study in Primary Health Care

Table 1

Characteristics of the patients, interpreters and GPs.

Participants ( )AgeGenderCountry of originLength of residency in SwedenMother tongue

<65 yrs old: Male: Chile: Spanish
Patients ( ) >65 yrs old: Female: Iran: 4–33 yearsPersian
Turkey: Turkish

Age GenderCountry of originLength in professionMother tongue

<50 yrs old: Male: Syria: Spanish
>50 yrs old: Female: Iran: <1–28 yearsPersian
Interpreters ( ) Turkey: Turkish
Uruguay:
Sweden:

<50 yrs old: Male: Iran: Persian
GPs ( ) >50 yrs old: Female: Equatorial Guinea: Many years: Icelandic
Iceland: Swedish
Sweden: