Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of hypertensive patients at ACSH, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018 (n = 320)
| Variables | Category | Good practice N (%) |
Poor practice N (%) |
Total N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Male | 18 (5.6) | 138 (43.1) | 156 (48.8) |
| Female | 47 (14.7) | 117 (37.2) | 164 (51.2) | |
| Age | < 65 | 60 (18.8) | 166 (51.9) | 226 (70.6) |
| ≥ 65 | 5 (1.6) | 89 (27.8) | 94 (29.4) | |
| Educational status | Can’t read an d write | 12 (3.8) | 125 (39.1) | 137 (42.8) |
| Can read and write | 8 (2.5) | 46 (14.4) | 54 (16.9) | |
| Primary | 3 (0.9) | 19 (5.9) | 22 (6.9) | |
| Secondary | 6 (1.9) | 12 (3.8) | 18 (5.6) | |
| Collage and above | 36 (11.2) | 53 (16.6) | 89 (27.8) | |
| Occupation | Farmer | 9 (2.8) | 46 (14.4) | 55 (17.2) |
| Civil servant | 16 (5) | 48 (15) | 64 (20) | |
| House wife | 8 (2.5) | 23 (7.2) | 31 (9.7) | |
| Self employed | 21 (6.6) | 65 (20.3) | 86 (26.9) | |
| Pensioned | 1 (0.3) | 3 (0.9) | 4 (1.2) | |
| Unemployed | 7 (2.2) | 63 (19.7) | 70 (21.9) | |
| Others | 3 (0.9) | 7 (2.2) | 10 (3.1) | |
| Income | < 500 | 2 (0.6) | 20 (6.2) | 22 (6.9) |
| 500–1000 | 16 (5) | 105 (32.8) | 121 (37.8) | |
| > 1000 | 45 (14.1) | 132 (41.2) | 177 (55.3) | |
| Residence | Urban | 54 (16.9) | 178 (55.6) | 232 (72.5) |
| Rural | 9 (2.8) | 79 (24.7) | 88 (27.5) |