Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of diabetes mellitus in rural Rwanda: time to contextualize the interventions? A cross-sectional study

Table 1 Socio-demographic profile of survey participants with diabetes from five district hospitals in Rwanda, 2015–2016

Variable	Rural dwellers		Urban dwellers		P value
Variable	N	%	N	%	P value
Sex
Men	107	36.9	70	38.5	0.403
Women	183	63.1	112	62.5	0.403
Age range (years)
< 15	7	2.4	1	0.5	< 0.001
15–29	145	50.0	49	26.9
30–44	35	12.1	26	14.3
45–59	53	18.3	61	33.5
60–74	45	15.5	36	19.8
≥ 75	5	1.7	9	4.9
Education level^a
Low	269	92.8	156	85.7	0.011
High	21	7.2	26	14.3	0.011
Herbal medicine use	36	12.4	9	4.9	0.004
Access to electricity	67	23.1	164	90.1	< 0.001
Access to running water	124	42.8	168	92.3	< 0.001
Work type^b
Low-income	261	90.0	150	82.4	0.030
High-income	14	4.8	20	11.0
Missing data	15	5.2	12	6.6
Medical insurance coverage	290	100	181	99.5	0.386

^aLow education level includes illiterate to incomplete secondary school categories; high education level includes those who completed secondary school or higher
^bLow-income work includes unemployment, subsistence farming, non-paid volunteers and students; high-income work includes non-government organizations (NGOs) employees, governmental institution employees and all activities generating more than 100,000 Rwandan francs (approximately 100 USD) per month

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