Table 1.
Socio demographic profile of subjects enrolled for primary prevention of CVDs
| S.No | Variable | Male n = 217 |
Female n = 185 |
Total N = 402 |
X2 | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Age group | |||||
| 40–49 | 27 (12.4) | 45 (24.3) | 72 (17.9) | |||
| 50–59 | 76 (35.0) | 71 (38.4) | 147 (36.6) | 13.27 | .004 | |
| 60–69 | 89 (41.0) | 54 (29.2) | 143((35.6) | |||
| ≥ 70 | 25 (11.5) | 15 (8.1) | 40 (10) | |||
| 2. | Marital Status | |||||
| Never married | –0 | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.2) | |||
| Currently married | 202 (93.1) | 132 (71.4) | 334 (83.1) | 33.97 | .001 | |
| Separated | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.2) | |||
| Widowed | 15 (6.9) | 51 (27.6) | 66 (16.4) | |||
| 3. | Family Type | |||||
| Nuclear | 99 (45.6) | 83 (44.9) | 182 (45.3) | 2.36 | .307 | |
| Joint | 118 (54.4) | 100 (54) | 218 (54.2) | |||
| Others | 0 | 2 (1.1) | 2 (0.5) | |||
| 4. | Socioeconomic class (Kuppuswamy) | |||||
| Upper (I) | 3(1.4) | 7 (3.8) | 10 (2.5) | 5.71 | 0.22 | |
| Upper Middle (II) | 109(50.2) | 77 (41.6) | 186 (46.3) | |||
| Lower middle (III) | 70(32.3) | 67 (36.2) | 137 (34.1) | |||
| Upper Lower (IV) | 35(16.1) | 33 (17.8) | 68 (16.9) | |||
| Lower (V) | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.2) | |||
Figures in parentheses are percentages.