Baseline | 12 months follow-up | |||||
Nurse educators | Lay educators | Total | Nurse educators | Lay educators | Total | |
n | 287 | 280 | 567 | 205 | 213 | 418 |
Attended first consultation (%) | ||||||
Yes | 50.9 | 61.1 | 55.9 | 55.6 | 70.4 | 63.2 |
No | 49.1 | 38.9 | 44.1 | 44.4 | 29.6 | 36.8 |
Age group (%) | ||||||
18–27 | 7.4 | 10.0 | 8.7 | 3.9 | 7.1 | 5.5 |
28–37 | 20.4 | 19.0 | 19.7 | 17.7 | 16.0 | 16.9 |
38–47 | 23.9 | 27.6 | 25.7 | 25.1 | 28.3 | 26.7 |
48–57 | 20.0 | 18.3 | 19.1 | 21.7 | 18.9 | 20.2 |
58–67 | 16.1 | 16.1 | 16.1 | 18.7 | 19.8 | 19.3 |
68–77 | 9.1 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 9.9 | 8.5 | 9.2 |
78–87 | 3.2 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 2.2 |
Gender (%) | ||||||
Male | 36.4 | 34.3 | 35.3 | 35.0 | 35.2 | 35.1 |
Female | 63.6 | 65.7 | 64.7 | 65.0 | 64.8 | 64.9 |
Smoking status (%) | ||||||
Smoker | 16.7 | 20.2 | 18.5 | 16.9 | 16.7 | 16.8 |
Non-smoker | 52.6 | 49.4 | 51.0 | 53.5 | 52.1 | 52.7 |
Ex-smoker | 30.7 | 30.5 | 30.6 | 29.7 | 31.3 | 30.5 |
Ethnicity (%) | ||||||
White | 68.6 | 73.8 | 71.3 | 66.2 | 74.1 | 70.5 |
Black | 8.9 | 7.0 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 6.9 |
Asian | 17.2 | 15.0 | 16.0 | 19.2 | 15.8 | 17.4 |
Mixed | 3.6 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 1.3 | 2.8 |
Other | 1.8 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
BTS step (%) | ||||||
0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
1 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 1.7 |
2 | 55.7 | 54.6 | 55.2 | 58.2 | 56.0 | 57.1 |
3 | 34.1 | 35.7 | 34.9 | 30.6 | 32.4 | 31.5 |
4 | 5.1 | 7.4 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 9.2 | 7.2 |
5 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 2.2 |
Data were collected at first consultation, except for baseline data for patients who did not attend (their data were obtained from general practitioner records and may be less reliable). Percentages do not include missing data.
BTS, British Thoracic Society.