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Table 1 Participant demographics

From: If it all goes digital, we’ll have to learn”: facilitators and barriers to uptake of digital health in British South Asians with cardiometabolic disease

 

Online survey

Focus groups and interviews

Ethnicity

N  = 100 (%)

N  = 45 (%)

 Bangladeshi

11 (11)

13 (29)

 Indian

58 (58)

16 (36)

 Pakistani

23 (23)

14 (31)

 Other Asian ethnicity/not provided

8 (8)

2 (4)

Gender

 Female

61 (61)

24 (53)

 Male

38 (38)

21 (47)

 Other/not provided

1 (1)

0 (0)

Age

 18–24

9 (9)

1 (2)

 25–34

17 (17)

0 (0)

 35–44

29 (29)

5 (11)

 45–54

19 (19)

9 (20)

 55–64

15 (15)

15 (33)

 65–74

8 (8)

10 (22)

 75–84

3 (3)

4 (9)

 84 + 

0 (0)

1 (2)

Education

 None/primary

0 (0)

13 (29)

 Secondary

18 (18)

16 (36)

 Tertiary

82 (82)

14 (31)

 Other/not provided

0 (0)

2 (4)

First language (self-described)

 English

77 (77)

*please see table footnote

 Bengali

2 (2)

 

 Gujarati

4 (4)

 

 Hindi

5 (5)

 

 Panjabi

4 (4)

 

 Tamil

2 (2)

 

 Urdu

4 (4)

 

 Other/not provided

1 (1)

 

Religion

 No religious beliefs/none provided

14 (14)

3 (7)

 Christianity

6 (6)

0 (0)

 Hinduism

28 (28)

11 (24)

 Islam

44 (44)

26 (58)

 Jainism

2 (2)

1 (2)

 Sikhism

5 (5)

4 (9)

 Zoroastrianism

1 91)

0 (0)

 Location

  

 South West

8 (8)

0 (0)

 South East

14 (14)

1 (2)

 Greater London

31 (31)

23 (51)

 East of England

1 (1)

0 (0)

 Midlands East

11 (11)

15 (33)

 West Midlands

11 (11)

0 (0)

 Yorkshire and Humber

10 (10)

6 (13)

 North West

12 (12)

0 (0)

 North East

2 (2)

0 (0)

Health conditions

 Prediabetes, Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes

36 (36%)

31(67%)

 Coronary heart disease, hypertension

26 (26%)

22(49%)

Occupation (or previous occupation if retired)

 Modern professional occupation

31 (31%)

8 (18%)

 Clerical and intermediate occupation

11 (11%)

5 (11%)

 Senior manager or administrator

17 (17%)

0 (0%)

 Technical and craft occupation

1 (1%)

3 (7%)

 Semi-routine manual and service occupation

4 (4%)

0 (0%)

 Routine manual and service occupation

1 (1%)

5 (11%)

 Middle or junior manager

4 (4%)

2 (4%)

 Traditional professional occupation

14 (14%)

2 (4%)

 None of the above (never formally employed)

6 (6%)

2 (4%)

 Other/not provided

11 (11%)

18 (40%)

  1. Demographic information on participants in online survey and focus groups/interviews
  2. *Participants in the focus groups and interviews were not asked about their first language. 26(58%) reported speaking English, with 2 others describing themselves as speaking some or a little English. Participants who completed this information, reported speaking: Gujarati (n = 12, 28%), Urdu (n = 10, 25%), Punjabi (n = 13, 30%), Hindi (n-9, 21%), Bengali (n = 11, 26%), and 2 people reported speaking other languages