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Table 1 Interview breakdown by communities and description of participant categories

From: Giving a voice to “the silent killer”: a knowledge, attitude and practice study of diabetes among French Guiana’s Parikweneh people

Community

# of interviews

# of participants

Mean age (± SD)

Sex ratio (men/women)

Saint-Georges

32

43

53.4 (± 15.8)

23/20

Macouria

28

42

51.1 (± 15.4)

20/22

Cayenne*

15

16

42.3 (± 10.6)

4/12

Total

75

101

50.4 (± 15.2)

47/54

Category

Example

Community members and healthcare users

 Knowledge holders (KH)

Elders, healers

 Healthcare users (HU)

All other community members

Healthcare network staff

 Healthcare administrators (HA)

Directors, administrators

 Healthcare professionals (HP)

Doctors, nurses, nutritionists

  1. Table reproduced from Rapinski et al. [18]
  2. *Interviews conducted with participants in or with the healthcare sector