Table 1 Patients’ demographic characteristics by country
Variablesa | Ethiopia N = 504 | Nepal N = 619 | Nigeria N = 502 | Yemen N = 600 | All N = 2225 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | (Mean, ±SD) | 33.2 (14.5) | 43.8 (17.8) | 34.4 (11) | 41.8 (18.3) | 38.7 (16.6) |
Gender | male: female (% male) | 279: 225 (55.4) | 395: 224 (63.8) | 241: 258 (48.0) | 329: 271 (54.8) | 1244: 978 (55.9) |
Marital status | Single | 176 (34.9) | 107 (17.3) | 183 (36.5) | 124 (20.7) | 590 (26.5) |
With partner/married | 302 (59.9) | 507 (81.9) | 259 (51.6) | 426 (71) | 1494 (67.1) | |
Divorced/separated | 12 (2.4) | 0 (0) | 13 (2.6) | 10 (1.7) | 35 (1.6) | |
Widowed | 14 (2.8) | 5 (0.8) | 44 (8.8) | 40 (6.7) | 103 (4.6) | |
Residence | Rural | 182 (36.1) | 63 (10.2) | 82 (16.3) | 279 (46.5) | 606 (27.2) |
Same town | 216 (42.9) | 284 (45.9) | 410 (81.7) | 268 (44.7) | 1178 (52.9) | |
Other town | 106 (21) | 272 (43.9) | 7 (1.4) | 53 (8.8) | 438 (19.7) | |
Literate: Illiterate (% literate) | 247: 257 (49) | 475: 137 (76.7) | 439: 57 (87.5) | 264: 336 (44.0) | 1425: 787 (64) | |
Education | Nil | 257 (51) | 197 (31.8) | 41 (8.2) | 311 (51.8) | 806 (36.2) |
Primary incomplete | 117 (23.2) | 37 (6) | 42 (8.4) | 126 (21) | 322 (14.5) | |
Primary complete | 43 (8.5) | 105 (17) | 63 (12.5) | 56 (9.3) | 267 (12) | |
Secondary | 62 (12.3) | 127 (20.5) | 220 (43.8) | 61 (10.2) | 470 (21.1) | |
Tertiary | 24 (4.8) | 153 (24.7) | 133 (26.5) | 46 (7.7) | 356 (16) | |
Missing | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0) | 3 (0.6) | 0 (0) | 4 (0.2) | |
Working: not working (% working) | 235: 269 (46.6) | 202: 417 (32.6) | 368: 131 (73.3) | 164: 436 (27.3) | 969: 1253 (43.6) | |
Mean (SD) residents in household | 5.7 (2.9) | 5.5 (3) | 4.1 (3) | 8.6 (5) | 6.1 (4) | |