TABLE 2.

Socio-demographic profile of the total sample and by treatment choice groups.

Profile	Total sample (n = 193)	FBTG intervention (n = 96)		Usual care (n = 97)		p-value
		n	Value	n	Value
Age in years, mean (s.d.)	50.4 (12.9)	96	50.3 (13.2)	97	50.4 (12.8)	0.940†
Gender (column %)
Women	77.7	76	79.2	74	76.3	0.631‡
Men	22.3	20	20.8	23	23.7	-
Race (column %)
Coloured	49.2	52	54.2	43	44.3	0.072‡
Black	24.9	17	17.7	31	31.0	-
White or Asian	25.9	27	28.1	23	23.7	-
Currently employed (%)§	54.4	48	50.0	57	58.8	0.222‡
Formal education, mean (s.d.) (years)	10.1 (2.7)	95	10.5 (2.8)	96	9.7 (2.6)	0.050¶
Family income per month,†† (column %)	(%)		(%)		(%)
H0: (R0.00 or government pension)	19.1	17	17.7	20	20.6	0.671‡
H1: (R0.00 – R4166.66)	61.1	60	62.5	58	59.8	-
H2: (R4166.67 – R8333.33)	12.4	14	14.6	10	10.3	-
H3: (>R8333.34)	4.7	4	4.2	5	5.2	-
Private (medical aid)	2.6	1	1.0	4	4.1	-

s.d., standard deviation.

n varies owing to missing values.

^†Independent t-test (normally distributed data).

^‡Chi-squared test.

^§% ‘Yes’ reported, balance recorded as ‘No’.

^¶Wilcoxon rank-sum test (non-normally distributed data).

^††H0, H1, H2, H3, government classification for monthly income at time of assessment.