摘要：Interest in measuring the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of the immigrantsincreased in recent years in Italy as in other countries. Our purpose was to evaluate theHRQoL of refugees welcomed in Tuscany using the SF-36 questionnaire. We collected114 questionnaires from 2011 to 2015. Our samples was constituted by 98 males and 16females, coming from different regions of the world; the mean age was 27.4. Statisticalanalysis showed that gender, length of stay and educational qualification are not associatedwith a poorer HRQoL. Instead, elderly refugees showed lower scores; refugees fromAfrican region reported a better HRQoL than the others, and there are also differencesbetween refugees welcomed in different cities of Tuscany. Our purpose is to continue thisstudy enlarging the sample size and the geographical coverage, in order to have a moreinteresting description of the health perception of refugees welcomed in Italy.
关键词：refugees; quality of life; public health; SF-36 Questionnaire
