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Table 2 Population characteristics

From: Psychometric properties of a condition-specific PROM for the psychosocial consequences of Labelling hypertension by using Rasch analysis

Characteristics

no hypertension n = 513

hypertension n = 285

mean age, years

39.4 (18–73)

53.0 (20–85)

mean education, years

17.6 (0–32)

11.7 (0–30)

mean time from diagnosis, years

10.1 (0.1–40)

Gender

 male

138

27%

63

22%

 female

375

73%

222

78%

Ethnic origin

 afro + multi

124

24%

104

36%

 caucaso + asian

386

75%

180

63%

Response media

 e-mail

67

13%

11

4%

 Facebook

140

27%

153

54%

 printed

3

1%

48

17%

 WhatsApp

303

59%

73

26%

  1. mean age, education, and time from diagnosis. Frequency of gender, ethnicity, and response media in the tow groups: ‘no hypertension’ and ‘hypertension’