Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of sample for focus groups
| Advocates of vulnerable groups | Advocates of limited English speakers | HIV positive | Mental health service users | Older people | Young people | People on drug recovery programme | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age range* | 30-55 | 30-60 | 25-50 | 18-60 | 69-84 | 17-21 | 27-45 | 17-84 |
| Men | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 26 |
| Women | 7 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 41 |
| Ethnicity: | ||||||||
| White | 10 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 46 |
| South Asian | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| African | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Mixed race | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Occupation: | ||||||||
| Professional/senior manager | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| “White collar” | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Manual | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unemployed | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Housewife | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Student | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Missing/did not want to say | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 33 |
| Estimated health literacy: | ||||||||
| High | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| Medium | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 29 |
| Low | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 67 |
*Ages estimated when not stated.