Feasibility and acceptability of a novel community-based mental health intervention delivered by community volunteers in Maharashtra, India: the Atmiyata programme

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the population study participants at baseline from intervention and control group

Characteristics		Intervention (n = 829)	Control (n = 841)	p value
Gender	Female	49.9	49.2	0.583^ns
Gender	Male	50.1	50.8	0.583^ns
Age (years)	18–29	45.7	52.7	0.108^ns
	30–39	31.0	29.6
	40+	23.2	17.6
Education	No school	26.7	39.0	0.000^a
	Up to 4 years of schooling	13.1	14.9
	5–10 years of schooling	35.3	34.2
	11+ years of schooling	24.8	11.9
Occupation	Farmer	72.1	79.3	0.201^ns
	Labourer & worker	23.0	15.9
	Not working	4.8	4.7
Family type	Joint	82.6	79.9	0.279^ns
Family type	Nuclear	17.3	20.1	0.279^ns
Number of members in family	1–4	26.5	19.6	0.088^ns
	5–7	48.7	54.7
	8+	24.7	25.6
Type of house	Kutcha	24.2	24.5	0.534^ns
	Kutcha-Pucca	71.5	69.6
	Pucca	4.2	5.9
Place of defecation	Toilet	27.4	28.3	0.439^ns
Place of defecation	Open defecation	72.6	71.7	0.439^ns

Values are percent of the participants
Test of proportion i.e. Chi-square test was used to test the difference in proportion across the intervention and control group
ns Statistically non-significant difference in proportions (p > 0.05)
^aStatistically significant difference in proportions (p < 0.05)

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