Community engagement to inform development of strategies to improve referral for hypertension: perspectives of patients, providers and local community members in western Kenya

Table 1 Participants’ characteristics

Category	Age (years)	Sex		Level of education					Total
Category		Male	Female	None	Primary	Secondary	College	University
	Mean ± SD	N (%)	N (%)						N (%)
Mabaraza	45.3 ± 13	91 (49)	95 (51)	2	61	96	22	5	186 (67)
Patient FGD	60.9 ± 10	18 (47)	20 (53)	4	23	8	3		38 (14)
Clinicians FGD	33.9 ± 7	27 (64)	15 (35.7)				37	5	36 (13)
KIIs	36.7 ± 7	12 (66.7)	6 (33.3)				9	9	18 (6)
Total				6	84	104	71	19	284

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