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Table 3 Baseline characteristics of participants

From: "Teaching: Individual" to increase adherence to therapeutic regimen in people with hypertension and type-2 diabetes: protocol of the controlled clinical trial ENURSIN.

Characteristics

Total (n = 200)

Study Group

p-value

Teaching: Individual (n = 98)

Usual Care (n = 102)

Sociodemographic

 Age (years)

62.8 ± 11.1

62.8 ± 11.6

62.7 ± 10.7

0.948

 Sex

  Women

146 (73.00)

72 (73.47)

74 (72.55)

0.883

  Men

54 (27.00)

26 (26.53)

28 (27.45)

 Marital status

  Married/living in a free union

98 (49.00)

50 (51.02)

48 (47.06)

0.950

  Divorced

19 (9.50)

9 (9.18)

10 (9.80)

  Single

48 (24.00)

23 (23.47)

25 (24.51)

  Widowers

35 (17.50)

16 (16.33)

19 (18.63)

 Socioeconomic status

  Low

174 (87.00)

84 (85.71)

90 (88.24)

0.596

  Medium

26 (13.00)

14 (14.29)

12 (11.76)

 Year of schooling

5 (2–5)

4 (2–5)

5 (2–5)

0.443

 Occupation

  Unemployed

22 (11.00)

9 (9.18)

13 (12.75)

0.455

  Employees

13 (6.50)

4 (4.08)

9 (8.82)

  Housewives

117 (58.50)

60 (61.22)

57 (55.88)

  Independent

47 (23.50)

24 (24.49)

23 (22.55)

  Pensioners

1 (0.50)

1 (1.02)

0 (0.00)

Clinics

 Diseases

  Type 2 diabetes

24 (12.00)

11 (11.22)

13 (12.75)

0.944

  Hypertension

125 (62.50)

62 (63.27)

63 (61.76)

  Hypertension/Type 2 diabetes

51 (25.50)

25 (25.51)

26 (25.49)

Charlson index (points)

1 (0–1)

1 (0–1)

1 (0–1)

0.913

Tobacco consumption in the last year

12 (6.15)

6 (6.25)

6 (6.06)

0.956

Body mass index (kg/m2)

29.1 ± 5.4

29.5 ± 5.5

28.7 ± 5.3

0.349

Waist-hip index

0.89 ± 0.07

0.90 ± 0.07

0.89 ± 0.08

0.440

Cholesterol (mg/dl)

 Total

196 ± 40

200 ± 34

192 ± 45

0.165

 Low density lipoprotein (LDL)

114 ± 37

118 ± 36

111 ± 38

0.248

 High density lipoprotein (HDL)

48 ± 12

48 ± 12

48 ± 11

0.838

 Triglycerides

173 ± 84

165 (115–204)

152 (116–207)

0.257

Outcomes

 Adherence score (points)

9.39 ± 2.05

9.39 ± 1.97

9.38 ± 2.13

0.957

 SBP in 24 h (mmHg)

124 ± 14.3

125 ± 14.6

123 ± 13.9

0.385

 HbA1c (%)

6.18 ± 1.58

6.19 ± 1.71

6.15 ± 1.44

0.879

  1. This table contains n (%) for categorical variables and mean (standard deviation) or median (first and third quartile) for continuous variables
  2. Abbreviations: SBP Systolic blood pressure, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; HbA1c = Glycated haemoglobin