Table 1: Socio-demographic characteristics among adult hypertensive patients attending at Ayder comprehensive specialized hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018 (n = 578).
Variables | Category | Frequency | Percept |
Sex | Male | 288 | 49.8% |
Female | 290 | 50.2% | |
Marital status | Married | 498 | 86.2% |
Single | 35 | 6.1% | |
Widow | 34 | 5.9% | |
Divorced | 11 | 1.9% | |
Level of education | No formal education | 242 | 41.9% |
Primary | 146 | 25.3% | |
Secondary | 123 | 21.3% | |
University | 67 | 11.6% | |
Religion | Orthodox | 539 | 93.3% |
Muslim | 38 | 6.6% | |
Occupational status | Governmental employee | 114 | 19.7% |
Trader | 131 | 22.7% | |
Farmer | 190 | 32.9% | |
Student | 14 | 2.4% | |
House wife | 122 | 21.1% | |
Ethnicity | Tigray | 556 | 96.2% |
Afar | 13 | 2.3% | |
Amhara | 9 | 1.5 | |
Residence | Urban | 323 | 55.9 |
Rural | 255 | 44.1 |