Research Article
Protecting Family Interests: An Interview Study with Foreign-Born Parents Struggling On in Childhood Cancer Care
Table 1
Description of the participants.
| | Number of participants | 11 |
| | Parents’ age, range (median) | 26–47 (40) |
| | Parental education | | | Missing data/Less than nine-year compulsory/nine-year compulsory | 1/2/2 | | Upper secondary school/College/University studies | 0/5/1 |
| | Diagnoses for the informants’ children | | | Leukaemia/Brain tumour/Solid tumour (both parents of one child). | 5/1/4 |
| | Parents’ country (continent) of origin | | | Iraq/Syria/Morocco (Greater Middle East) | 4/1/1 | | Finland/Germany/Russia/Serbia Montenegro (Europe) | 1/1/1/1 | | Peru (South America) | 1 |
| | Parents’ mother language | | | Arabic/Finish/German/Kurdish/Russian/Serbian/Spanish | 5/1/1/1/1/1/1 |
| | Time interval since immigration, range (median) | 2–18 (6) |
| | Self-reported reason for immigration | | Family reunification/Labour market/Refugee
/Adventure | 8/1/1/1 |
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