Table 1.
Characteristic | Proportion of participants, % (n = 1202) |
---|---|
Gender | |
Male | 49 |
Female | 51 |
Age range | |
18–30 years | 35 |
31–44 years | 37 |
45–55 years | 27 |
Place of residence | |
Large town or city | 53 |
Small town or suburbs | 31 |
Village/hamlet | 16 |
Working status | |
Employed full time | 55 |
Not currently working | 25 |
Employed part-time | 10 |
Self-employed | 10 |
Do not currently smoke | 72 |
Age at diagnosis | |
≤25 years of age | 68 |
26–40 years | 24 |
>40 years of age | 8 |
Duration with asthma | |
≤5 years | 25 |
6–20 years | 45 |
>20 years | 31 |
Asthma control: self-reported | |
Daytime symptoms in the last 7 d | 85 |
Night-time symptoms in the last 7 d | 79 |
Experienced a worsening of symptoms at least once a week | 53 |
Uncontrolled asthma (ACT score <20 points) | 76 |
Partly controlled or uncontrolled asthma (GINA guidelines)a | 92 |
aProxy measure for GINA definition: daytime symptoms experienced more than twice a week, night-time symptoms, had to limit activities in the last four weeks, had to use rescue medication more than once a week.