Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Interviewee number	Age, years	Sex	Ethnicity	Qualifications	Employment status	H	D	Marital status (others in household)	Monitors BP	Monitors blood sugar	IMD/Qa
1	68	F	White	No formal	Retired	Y	N	Married	Y	N	1
2	76	F	White	No formal	Retired	Y	N	Married	Y	N	2
3	79	M	Black/Caribbean	No formal	Retired	Y	Y	Lives alone	Y	Y	1
4	62	F	White	No formal	P/T	Y	N	Shared accommodation	Y	N	1
5	74	M	White	Trade apprenticeship	Retired	Y	N	Married	N	N	2
6	65	F	White	Nursing	Retired	Y	N	Married	Y (Used to)	N	3
7	49	F	White	No formal	Unemployed	Y	N	Married	Y (Used to)	N	1
8	66	M	White	No formal	Retired	Y	Y	Married	N	N	2
9	77	F	White	No formal	Retired	Y	N	Married	N	N	1
10	59	F	White	None	P/T	Y	BL	Married	N	N	1
11	80	M	White	Primary school	Retired	Y	No	Married	N	N	4
12	66	M	White	Primary school	Retired recently	Y	No	Married	N	N	2
13	69	M	Black/British	No formal	Retired	Y	Y	Married	N	Y	1
14	52	F	Asian	Teaching	F/T	Y	No	Living with partner	Y	N	2
15	72	F	Asian/Sikh	A-Level equivalent	Retired	Y	No	Widowed	Y	Y	2
16	78	M	Asian	Nursing quals	Retired nurse	Y	No	Lives with family	Y	N	2

^aIMD = Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 based on patient postcode, Q (quartile score) based on ranking of 32 482 Super Output Areas. BL = Borderline. BP = Blood pressure. D = Diabetes. H = Hypertension. N = No. Y = Yes.