Uptake of self-management education programmes for people with type 2 diabetes in primary care through the embedding package: a cluster randomised control trial and ethnographic study

Table 1 Descriptive baseline characteristics of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus registered at participating practices

		Wait-list (n = 15,527)		Immediate (n = 14,322)
Characteristic	% missing	Median	IQR	Median	IQR
Age, years	0.0	67	56, 76	66	56, 75
HbA1c, mmol/mol	8.2	53	47, 63	53	47, 63
HbA1c, %	8.2	7.0	6.5, 7.9	7.0	6.5, 7.9
Time from HbA1c measurement to baseline, weeks	8.2	14.1	6.6, 24.1	14.6	7.1, 24.1
		N	%	N	%
Sex^a
Men		8773	56.5	8255	57.6
Women		6754	43.5	6067	42.4
Ethnicity
White		11 629	74.9	9647	67.4
South Asian		927	6.0	1002	7.0
Black		442	2.9	603	4.2
Other		554	3.6	558	3.9
Missing		1975	12.7	2512	17.5
SSME status^a
Not referred		2989	19.3	5951	41.6
Referred, not attended		2544	16.4	2879	20.1
No referral, but attended^b		3188	20.5	1803	12.6
Attended		6806	43.8	3689	25.8

Abbreviations: IQR, Interquartile Range; SSME, Structured self-management education
^a No missing data
^b Likely self-referral

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