Table 2.
Characteristics of participants of patients' focus groups
| Location | Sex | Operation | Age (years) | Socio‐economic status (IMD quintiles) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | Hip | Knee | VVs | Spouse or carer | 40–54 | 55–74 | 75+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | NK | |
| London | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| London | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Birmingham | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Liverpool | 5 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Bournemouth | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 22 | 23 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 7 |
IMD, Index of Multiple Deprivation (1 = least deprived; 5 = most deprived); VVs, varicose veins; NK, not known.