Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Participants	Eligibility criteriaa	Data collection type	n	Gender	Origin	Age range	Residence
Aboriginal cardiac patients	Cardiac event 12/2005 -06/2006	Semi- structured Interviews	7	3 M	7 I	38–65	1 T
				4 F			4 TC
							2 RAC
Health care providers & community researchers	Experience in Aboriginal health & research	Unstructured interviews	6	4 M	2 I	30–56	5 TC
				2 F	4 NI		1 RAC
		Focus groups	6	3 M	3 I	30–49	4 T
				3 F	3 NI		1 TC
							1 RAC
Non-cardiac community members	Experience supporting family members with CVD	Focus group- F1	6	6 F	6 I	24–66	3 T
							3TC
		Focus group- F2	4	4 F	4 I	28–66	4TC
		Focus group- M	3	3 M	3 I	30–65	3TC
							1RAC
		Semi-structured interview	2	1 M	2 I	40–54	1 T
				1 F			1TC
Total			34	13 M	27 I		16 T
				21 F	7 NI		13 TC
							5 RAC

Notes: ^a All participants must be18 years or older and living in, or within, 200 km of Alice Springs.

M = male; F = female; I = Indigenous; NI = Non-Indigenous; T = town; TC = town camp; RAC = remote area community; CVD = cardiovascular disease.