Table 2.
Socio-demographic data of participants (n = 18).
| Focus group | Participant | Gender | Age (year) | Race | Duration of care (years) |
Relationship with patient | Marital status | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Par A | F | 53 | C | 9 | Mother | Married | E |
| Par B | F | 69 | M | 5 | Mother | Married | UE | |
| Par C | M | 63 | M | 9 | Father | Widower | UE | |
| Par D | F | 51 | M | 7 | Mother | Married | UE | |
| 2 | Par E | M | 67 | C | 20 | Father | Married | E |
| Par F | M | 44 | C | 20 | Brother | Married | E | |
| Par G | F | 54 | M | 6 | Mother | Married | UE | |
| Par H | F | 61 | I | 29 | Sister | Married | Retired | |
| 3 | Par I | M | 40 | C | 8 | Husband | Married | E |
| Par J | F | 58 | M | 20 | Sister | Married | E | |
| Par K | F | 62 | C | 20 | Mother | Married | UE | |
| Par L | F | 42 | C | 15 | Sister | Divorced | E | |
| Par M | M | 63 | M | 10 | Father | Married | UE | |
| 4 | Par N | M | 53 | M | 9 | Father | Married | E |
| Par O | F | 50 | C | 5 | Mother | Married | UE | |
| Par P | M | 52 | C | 5 | Father | Married | E | |
| 5 | Par Q | M | 43 | C | 7 | Husband | Married | E |
| Par R | F | 33 | C | 10 | Sister | Married | E |
Par, participant; M, Malay; C, Chinese; I, Indian; E, employed; UE, unemployed.