Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of participants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
| Characteristics | Provinces, n (%) |
Total, n (%) | ||||
| Haut-Katanga | Kasai-Central | Kasai-Oriental | Kinshasa | Nord-Kivu | ||
| Total | 425 (13.0) | 903 (27.6) | 619 (18.9) | 830 (25.4) | 491 (15.0) | 3268 (100) |
| Age (years) | ||||||
| 18–30 | 156 (36.7) | 247 (27.4) | 297 (48.0) | 382 (46.0) | 218 (44.4) | 1300 (39.8) |
| 31–39 | 122 (28.7) | 241 (26.7) | 135 (21.8) | 219 (26.4) | 117 (23.8) | 834 (25.5) |
| 40–49 | 99 (23.3) | 222 (24.6) | 87 (14.1) | 120 (14.5) | 92 (18.7) | 620 (19.0) |
| ≥50 | 48 (11.3) | 193 (21.4) | 100 (16.2) | 109 (13.1) | 64 (13.0) | 514 (15.7) |
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 367 (86.4) | 721 (79.8) | 431 (69.6) | 384 (46.3) | 270 (55.0) | 2173 (66.5) |
| Male | 58 (13.6) | 182 (20.2) | 188 (30.4) | 446 (53.7) | 221 (45.0) | 1095 (33.5) |
| Education | ||||||
| Primary school | 37 (8.7) | 3 (0.3) | 76 (12.3) | 6 (0.7) | 31 (6.3) | 153 (4.7) |
| Secondary | 225 (52.9) | 758 (83.9) | 359 (58.0) | 233 (28.1) | 152 (31.0) | 1727 (52.8) |
| Bachelor | 150 (35.3) | 129 (14.3) | 169 (27.3) | 466 (56.1) | 292 (59.5) | 1206 (36.9) |
| Postgraduate | 13 (3.1) | 13 (1.4) | 15 (2.4) | 125 (15.1) | 16 (3.3) | 182 (5.6) |
| Belonging to health sector | ||||||
| No | 395 (93.0) | 870 (96.3) | 553 (89.3) | 620 (74.7) | 421 (85.7) | 2859 (87.5) |
| Yes | 30 (7.0) | 33 (3.7) | 66 (10.7) | 210 (25.3) | 70 (14.2) | 409 (12.5) |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Single | 20 (4.7) | 258 (28.6) | 122 (19.7) | 438 (52.8) | 171 (34.8) | 1009 (30.8) |
| Married/living together | 405 (95.3) | 645 (71.4) | 497 (80.3) | 392 (47.2) | 320 (65.2) | 2259 (69.2) |
| Profession | ||||||
| Student | 7 (1.6) | 153 (16.9) | 58 (9.4) | 154 (18.6) | 68 (13.8) | 440 (13.5) |
| Small company owner | 34 (8.0) | 91 (10.1) | 178 (28.8) | 143 (17.2) | 116 (23.6) | 562 (17.2) |
| Public employee | 77 (18.1) | 43 (4.8) | 66 (10.7) | 190 (22.9) | 59 (12.0) | 435 (13.3) |
| No profession | 242 (56.9) | 542 (60.0) | 225 (36.3) | 190 (22.9) | 137 (27.9) | 1336 (40.9) |
| Private employee | 65 (15.3) | 74 (8.2) | 92 (14.9) | 153 (18.4) | 111 (22.6) | 495 (15.1) |
| Residency area | ||||||
| Urban | 256 (60.2) | 737 (81.6) | 548 (88.5) | 596 (71.8) | 467 (95.1) | 2604 (79.7) |
| Rural | 169 (39.8) | 166 (18.4) | 71 (11.5) | 234 (28.2) | 24 (4.9) | 664 (20.4) |
| Live alone or with other people | ||||||
| Live alone | 6 (1.4) | 89 (9.9) | 23 (3.7) | 43 (5.2) | 27 (5.5) | 188 (5.8) |
| Live with other people | 419 (98.6) | 814 (90.1) | 596 (96.3) | 787 (94.8) | 464 (94.5) | 308 (94.2) |
| Having a chronic disease* | ||||||
| No | 280 (65.9) | 854 (94.6) | 465 (75.1) | 799 (96.3) | 417 (84.9) | 2815 (86.1) |
| Yes | 145 (34.1) | 49 (5.4) | 154 (24.9) | 31 (3.7) | 74 (15.1) | 453 (13.9) |
| Religion | ||||||
| None | 1 (0.2) | 5 (0.6) | 14 (2.3) | 14 (1.7) | 4 (0.8) | 38 (1.2) |
| Protestant/Adventist | 94 (22.1) | 35 (3.9) | 120 (19.3) | 264 (31.8) | 161 (32.8) | 674 (20.7) |
| Other religion | 28 (6.5) | 366 (40.5) | 100 (16.1) | 235 (28.3) | 54 (11.1) | 783 (23.9) |
| Catholic | 108 (25.4) | 477 (52.8) | 216 (34.9) | 230 (27.7) | 243 (49.5) | 1274 (39.0) |
| Pentecostal | 194 (45.6) | 20 (2.2) | 169 (27.3) | 87 (10.5) | 29 (5.9) | 499 (15.3) |
*Hypertension, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and cancer.