Table 1.

Characteristics of the study participants.

Participant no./gender/age (years)	Education	Marital status	Diagnosis	No. of members with chronic disease in the home	Residence/economic status	Duration (years)
1/Male/36	School level	Married	Spinal injury	3	Suburb/nearly poor	15
2/Female/35	School level	Married	Shortening of the leg	1	Rural poor	4
3/Male/32	School level	Married	RHF	2	Rural poor	16
4/Male/68	Literate	Married	CRD	2	Rural nearly poor	16
5/Male/72	School level	Married	Complex diabetes, hypertension	1	Urban/richer	41
6/Female/59	Illiterate	Married	Hypertension, arthritis	2	Urban poor	8
7/Male/60	Literate	Married	CVD	2	Urban/nearly poor	4
8/Male/28	Literate	Unmarried	Mental illness	1	Rural poor	8
9/Male/72	Literate	Married	CRD, hypertension	2	Suburban poor	2
10/Female/50	Illiterate	Married	CVD	2	Suburban	2
11/Male/70	Literate	Married	Cancer	1	Rural/recently been poor	3
12/Male/58	Degree	Married	Cancer	1	Suburban/richer	1
13/Male/63	Literate	Married	CVD, hypertension, diabetes	2	Rural poor	4
14/Female/45	School level	Married	Mental illness	1	Urban/rich	19
15/Male/40	Literate	Married	Spinal injury (paralysis)	1	Rural poor	3
16/Male/38	Literate	Married	CVD	2	Rural/nearly poor	5
17/Male/35	School level	Married	Cancer	2	Rural/newly poor	2
18/Female/39	Literate	Married	CVD	1	Rural poor	3
19/Male/40	Literate	Married	CVD	1	Rural poor	4
20/Male/55	Literate	Married	Diabetes, hypertension	2	Rural poor	12
21/Male/45	Literate	Married	CVD	1	Rural/nearly poor	5

CRD, chronic respiratory disease; CVD, cardiovascular disease; RHF, rheumatic heart fever.