Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of participants
| Age range (years) Mean age (±SD) |
Ethnicity | Education | Marital status | Employment status | Language | |
| New Brunswick | ||||||
| Focus groups— (eight groups for a total of 37 men) |
45–79 64.2 (±9.7) |
Caucasian: 37 | Secondary: 17 College: 4 University: 16 |
Single: 3 Married: 25 Common law: 4 Divorced: 2 Widowed: 2 Widowed+divorced: 1 |
Employed: 13 Retired: 18 Employed+retired: 1 Semi-retired: sick leave: 3 2 |
6 EN 2 FR |
| Semi-structured interviews (four men) | 45–54 51.5 (±4.8) |
Caucasian: 4 | Secondary: 1 College: 3 | Single: 2 Married: 2 |
Employed: 3 Sick leave: 1 |
3 EN 1 FR |
| Ontario | ||||||
| Focus groups—(nine groups for a total of 36 men) | 51–90 65.8 (±15.5) |
Caucasian: 34 Caucasian+Jewish: 1 Caucasian+first nation: 1 |
Primary: 3 Secondary: 2 College: 7 University: 24 |
Single: 1 Married: 19 Common law: 7 Separated: 2 Divorced: 7 |
Retired: 28 Sick leave: 3 Employed+retired: 5 |
4 EN 5 FR |
| Quebec | ||||||
| Focus groups—(five groups for a total of 15 men) | 45–75 67.5 (±8.9) |
Caucasian: 15 | Primary: 2 Secondary: 4 College: 4 University: 5 |
Single: 2 Married: 9 Common law: 4 |
Employed: 1 Retired: 12 Sick leave: 1 Unemployed: 1 |
1 EN 4 FR |
| Semi-structured interview (one man) | Not included to protect for privacy | |||||
EN, English; FR, French.