Table 1 Participants’ socioeconomic characteristics:
From: Assessment the awareness toward hypertension and diabetes mellitus: Syrian cross sectional study
Variable | Categories | n (%) |
|---|---|---|
Gender | Female | 642 (65.8) |
Male | 334 (34.2) | |
Age groups | 18–25 | 705 (72) |
25–40 | 163 (16.7) | |
40–55 | 76 (7.8) | |
55 ≤ | 32 (3.3) | |
Level of education | illiterate | 2 (0.2) |
Primary school | 13 (1.3) | |
Middle school | 13 (1.3) | |
secondary school | 49 (5.1) | |
University | 899 (92.1) | |
Employment status | Unemployed | 788 (80.7) |
Employed | 188 (19.3) | |
State of residence | City | 729 (74.7) |
Countryside | 247 (25.3) | |
Marital status | Single | 749 (76.7) |
Married | 208 (21.3) | |
Widowed | 10 (1) | |
Divorced | 9 (0.9) | |
Monthly income | Excellent | 47 (4.8) |
Good | 261 (26.7) | |
Middle | 410 (42.1) | |
Low | 258 (26.4) |