Table 1.
Sociodemographic and health variables in the baseline and end of intervention surveys
| Control | Intervention | |||
| Baseline survey n=1908 |
End of intervention survey n=1430 |
Baseline survey n=1505 |
End of intervention survey n=1109 |
|
| Mean age (SD) | 56.4 (19.8) | 52.7 (19.7) | 56.8 (18.9) | 53.0 (19.2) |
| % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | |
| Female | 56.0 (1068) | 70.5 (1008) | 55.1 (829) | 68.7 (762) |
| In a marital union | 48.2 (919) | 39.5 (565) | 49.0 (737) | 40.1 (445) |
| Education | ||||
| No education | 40.6 (772) | 37.2 (530) | 38.4 (576) | 32.3 (357) |
| Primary | 25.4 (483) | 21.7 (310) | 25.4 (381) | 21.9 (242) |
| Secondary | 30.9 (588) | 38.6 (550) | 31.9 (479) | 40.7 (451) |
| Tertiary | 3.1 (58) | 2.5 (36) | 4.4 (66) | 5.2 (57) |
| Socioeconomic status | ||||
| 1 (lowest) | 18.8 (326) | 23.7 (335) | 16.6 (229) | 14.8 (164) |
| 2 | 20.1 (348) | 20.7 (292) | 18.3 (253) | 18.9 (209) |
| 3 | 19.2 (332) | 18 (254) | 19 (263) | 20.7 (229) |
| 4 | 19.4 (335) | 19.6 (277) | 20.8 (288) | 20.8 (230) |
| 5 (highest) | 22.5 (390) | 18.1 (256) | 25.4 (351) | 24.7 (273) |
| Smoking history | ||||
| Never smoked | 79.3 (1507) | 84.9 (1214) | 76.8 (1151) | 85.8 (952) |
| Previous smoker | 11.3 (214) | 5.6 (80) | 13.4 (201) | 7 (78) |
| Smokes <1/day | 2.3 (44) | 2 (29) | 2.4 (36) | 1.6 (18) |
| Smokes >1/day | 7.2 (136) | 7.5 (107) | 7.4 (111) | 5.5 (61) |
| Self-reported health and risk | ||||
| Family history of CVD | 8.3 (158) | 10.4 (148) | 7.4 (111) | 6.1 (68) |
| Diabetes | 6.5 (124) | 6.9 (99) | 6.2 (93) | 5.8 (64) |
| Coronary heart disease | 4.2 (81) | 1.6 (23) | 1.9 (29) | 2.5 (28) |
| Stroke or TIA | 3.2 (61) | 3.2 (46) | 2.6 (39) | 1.6 (18) |
| Heart failure | 2.8 (53) | 1.5 (21) | 2.4 (36) | 1.2 (13) |
| Obesity | ||||
| Male (waist >94 cm) | 26.3 (221) | 20.4 (86) | 31.1 (210) | 30.3 (105) |
| Female (waist >80 cm) | 80.2 (857) | 78.5 (791) | 81.4 (675) | 77.3 (589) |
| Hypertension | ||||
| No hypertension | 53.7 (1024) | 52.9 (757) | 53.0 (797) | 50.9 (564) |
| On treatment and controlled | 10.2 (194) | 11.2 (160) | 6.6 (100) | 11.3 (125) |
| On treatment but not controlled | 9.2 (175) | 13.2 (189) | 8.8 (133) | 13.0 (144) |
| Not on treatment | 27.0 (515) | 22.7 (324) | 31.6 (475) | 24.9 (276) |
| Blood glucose | ||||
| Normal <11, not fasting | 91.5 (1745) | 92.7 (1325) | 91.4 (1375) | 92.1 (1021) |
| High 7 <11, fasting | 0.7 (13) | 0.9 (13) | 0.3 (4) | 0.8 (9) |
| Diabetic 11 or more | 7.8 (149) | 6.4 (92) | 8.4 (126) | 7.1 (79) |
CVD, cardiovascular disease; TIA, transient ischaemic attack.