Table 2.
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of participants by study group. No significant differences between gender, setting, and disease category across the two groups were identified using chi-square test; the difference in age groups between intervention and control at baseline is statistically significant (P=.003). Bonferroni post-hoc test reveals that the difference is in the age group ≥71 years.
| Variable | Intervention, n (%) | Control, n (%) | |
| Total number of participantsa | 1433 (100.0) | 926 (100.0) | |
| Gender |
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Male | 353 (43.7) | 228 (43.8) |
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Female | 454 (56.3) | 292 (56.2) |
| Age group (years) |
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40-55 | 252 (31.5) | 134 (26.9) |
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56-70 | 353 (44.1) | 200 (40.1) |
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≥71 | 195 (24.4) | 165 (33.1) |
| Setting |
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Rural areas | 888 (62.0) | 563 (60.8) |
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Palestinian refugee camps | 545 (38.0) | 363 (39.2) |
| Disease category |
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Diabetes | 512 (35.7) | 300 (32.4) |
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Hypertension | 921 (64.3) | 626 (67.6) |
aSome numbers under some categories may not add up to the total because of missing values.