Table 4 Statistical significance of perceived difficulties with sociodemographic variables
| Gender | Age | Profession | Country of birth | Canton | Hospital unit | Hospital mobile team | Home care mobile team |
Outpatient facilities | Previous training | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | P | p | p | p | P | p | p | P | p | p |
| Cluster I | ||||||||||
| 4) Absence of written materials in other languages (e.g., brochures, consent forms) | 0.044 | |||||||||
| 5) Absence of referent individuals in cross-cultural clinical work | 0.005 | |||||||||
| 6) Patients’ perceptions of illness, death, treatments and the healthcare system (e.g., role of palliative care) | 0.006 | |||||||||
| 7) Patient’s financial resources (e.g., body repatriation, arrival of relatives) | 0.039 | |||||||||
| 8) Patients’ active involvement in decision making | 0.01 | |||||||||
| Cluster II | ||||||||||
| 10) Lack of knowledge about health and support networks for precarious patients (e.g., asylum seekers, undocumented migrants) | 0.031 | |||||||||
| 15) Required efforts (e.g., time of consultation, organization) | 0.004 | |||||||||
| 16) Translation by relatives | 0.000 | 0.008 | 0.009 | 0.001 | 0.006 | 0.02 | ||||
| Cluster III | ||||||||||
| 18) Collaboration with professional interpreters or colleagues providing translation | 0.05 | |||||||||
| 19) Colleagues/superiors’ sensitivity to cultural diversity | 0.022 |