Table 2 Characteristics of respondents by site
| Â | Petaling Bahagia (urban, KL) | Tanjung Sepat (rural, peninsula) | Marudu (rural Sabah island) | UiTM (urban, KL) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Â | ||
Type of Informant | Key Informant | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 12 | |
Health professional | Public | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | |
Private | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | ||
TCM | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | ||
Total | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 24 | ||||||
Patient | Public | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 29 | |
Private | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
TCM | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | ||
Total | 7 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 37 | ||||||
Patient demographics | Hypertension status | Controlled | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 27 |
Uncontrolled | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | ||
Ethnicity | Malay | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 21 | |
Indian | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
Chinese | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||
Other minority | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||
| Â | Total | 15 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 73 | |||||