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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 6.
Published in final edited form as: ISRN Stroke. 2014;2014:10.1155/2014/309106. doi: 10.1155/2014/309106

Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants.

Characteristics Total N = 1616 Number (%) Urban (Nansana) Number (%) Rural (Busukuma) Number (%) P value
Gender
    Male 510 (31.6) 326 (28.1) 184 (40.4) 0.004
    Female 1,106 (68.4) 835 (71.9) 271 (59.6) <0.001

Age group (years)
    Teenagers <20 56 (3.5) 48 (4.1) 8 (1.8) 0.761
    Young adults (20–39) 853 (52.8) 619 (53.3) 234 (51.4) 0.698
    Middle aged adults (40–59) 500 (30.9) 368 (31.7) 132 (29.0) 0.618
    Elderly/aged (60–80) 207 (12.8) 126 (10.9) 81 (17.8) 0.224

Mean age 39.6 ± 15.4 38.8 ± 14.8 41.5 ± 16.6

Religion
    Catholic 503 (31.1) 345 (29.7) 157 (34.5) 0.274
    Protestant 480 (29.7) 313 (27.0) 167 (36.7) 0.028
    Muslim 357 (22.1) 299 (25.7) 58 (12.8) 0.033
    Pentecostal (born again) 207 (12.8) 151(13.0) 57 (12.5) 0.925
    Other 69 (4.3) 53 (4.6) 16 (3.5) 0.806

Highest level of education
    Tertiary 133 (8.2) 89 (7.7) 56 (12.3) 0.361
    Secondary 638 (39.5) 475 (40.9) 224 (49.2) 0.038
    Primary 699 (43.3) 502 (43.2) 136 (29.9) 0.005
    Never attended school 146 (9.0) 95 (8.2) 39 (8.6) 0.794

Marital status
    Married 986 (61.0) 712 (61.3) 274 (60.2) 0.773
    Separated (not divorced) 199 (12.3) 146 (12.6) 53 (11.7) 0.860
    Divorced 52 (3.2) 23 (2.0) 29 (6.4) 0.439
    Single (never married) 226 (14.0) 169 (14.5) 57 (12.5) 0.703
    Widowed 153 (9.5) 111 (9.6) 42 (9.2) 0.937