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Table 3 Demographics of participants

From: Patients’ experiences of the caring encounter in health promotion practice: a qualitative study in Swedish primary health care

Number

Gender

Age

Marital status

* Risk factors for CVD

Occupation

n = 12

Male n = 7

Female n = 5

Median age 60

Mean age 57

Married/Living together n = 9

Single n = 3

Hypertension n = 9

Overweight n = 10

Obesitas n = 2

Diabetes type II n = 3

Tobacco use (Smoking) n = 0

Physical inactivity n = 10

Employed n = 8

Unemployed n = 2

Retired n = 2

  1. * some participants had several risk factors