Table 1.
Patient participant characteristics.
| Characteristics | Group 1: Engaged, early adopters (n=4) | Group 2: Engaged, slow adopters (n=4) | Group 3 | ||
| Low engagers (n=5) | Dropouts (n=3) | ||||
| Age in years, mean (range) | 57 (51-63) | 59 (49-67) | 42 (32-52) | 45 (37-49) | |
| Sex (male:female) | 4:0 | 2:2 | 2:3 | 2:1 | |
| Time since T2DMa diagnosis, mean (range) | 6 months (3-9 months) | 19 years (9-26 years) | 6 years (4 months-13 years) | 3 years (3 months-27 years) | |
| Complications from T2DM, n | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | |
| Site, n | |||||
| NYGHb | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Thunder Bay | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| WOHSc | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Marital status, n | |||||
| Married | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | |
| Divorced | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Common law | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Single | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Ethnic background, n | |||||
| White | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | |
| First Nations | - | - | - | 2 | |
| African American | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Highest education, n | |||||
| High school | - | 3 | - | - | |
| University | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Postgraduate | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| Type of therapy, n | |||||
| Oral | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | |
| Insulin | - | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Combination | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
aT2DM: type 2 diabetes.
bNYGH: North York General Hospital.
cWOHS: William Osler Health System.