Table 2.

Baseline characteristics for the qualitative study

Study population	FGD1	FGD2	FGD3	FGD4	FGD5	In-depth interviews
	Clinic patients	General population	Clinic patients	General population	Medical doctors	Patients from healers and vendors
Participants (N)	15	12	16	12	4	11
Gender
Male	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	16 (100%)	12 (100%)	2 (50%)	5 (45%)
Female	15 (100%)	12 (100%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	2 (50%)	6 (55%)
Age range (years)	25–61	26–65	18–70	18–74	30–36	19–60
Ethnicity
Chagga	11 (73%)	9 (75%)	11 (69%)	4 (33%)	2 (50%)	2 (18%)
Pare	2 (13%)	2 (17%)	2 (13%)	5 (42%)	0	0
Maasai	0	0	0	0	0	4 (36%)
Sambaa	1 (7%)	1 (8%)	1 (6%)	0	0	3 (27%)
Other*	1 (7%)	0	2 (13%)	3 (25%)	2 (50%)	2 (18%)
Education
None	0	0	0	0	0	2 (18%)
Primary	11 (73%)	10 (83%)	10 (63%)	3 (25%)	0	4 (36%)
Secondary	3 (20%)	2 (17%)	5 (31%)	6 (50%)	0	1 (9%)
University	1 (7%)	0	1 (6%)	3 (25%)	4 (100%)	4 (36%)
Occupation
Unemployed†	2 (13%)	4 (33%)	0	1 (8%)	0	3 (27%)
Student	0	0	4 (25%)	5 (42%)	0	0
Farmer/wage earner	4 (27%)	3 (25%)	8 (50%)	3 (25%)	0	5 (45%)
Small business	3 (20%)	2 (17%)	3 (19%)	2 (17%)	0	1 (9%)
Professional‡	4 (27%)	3 (25%)	1 (6%)	1 (8%)	4 (100%)	2 (18%)
Religion
Roman Catholic	5 (33%)	5 (42%)	8 (50%)	1 (8%)	3 (75%)	7 (64%)
Lutheran	6 (40%)	4 (33%)	4 (25%)	2 (17%)	0	1 (9%)
Christian Evangelical	1 (7%)	1 (8%)	2 (13%)	5 (42%)	1 (25%)	1 (9%)
Christian (other)	2 (13%)	0	0	0	0	0
Islam	1 (7%)	2 (17%)	2 (13%)	4 (33%)	0	2 (18%)
Residence
Urban	9 (60%)	11 (92%)	10 (83%)	12 (100%)	4 (100%)	9 (82%)
Rural	6 (40%)	1 (8%)	2 (17%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	2 (18%)

*Other tribal ethnicities represented in our groups include Luguru, Kilindi, Kurya, Mziguwa, Mnyisanzu, Rangi, Jita, Nyambo, and Kaguru

†Includes housewives and students

‡Professional includes any salaried position (eg, nurse, teacher, government employee, etc) and retired persons

FGD, focus group discussion.