The participants were selected by convenience sample of the first 3 patients with diabetes each day who came to the consult for any reason and met the inclusion criteria until complete the number of participants per researcher.
The patients were selected by convenience sample of the first 3 DM2 patients each day who came to the consult for any reason and met the inclusion criteria until complete the number of participants per researcher.
Since the RBC traits are measured together as part of the complete blood count, the number of participants and laboratory tests were similar for six RBC traits and multiple measurements for each RBC trait were available in most individuals (Figure S1C).
To compensate for drop-out/failure to complete, the planned number of participants had been 85 participants per group.
The vast majority of the students invited to take part in the survey completed the questionnaire, and the number of participants sufficed to be considered representative of the target population.
Data management The total number of completed surveys (number of participants) and the Likert rating score for each item for each respondent was recorded.
The total number of completed surveys (number of participants) will be recorded and the rating for each item for each respondent downloaded to a spread sheet for descriptive analysis.
The response rate, defined as the number of participants completing the survey divided by the number of valid households contacted, was 65% for survey 1 and 57.7% for survey 2. Relevant sociodemographic characteristics of respondents are shown in Table 1.
See table 2 for a summary of the treatment modules and the number of participants completing each module.
To calculate the response rate, we divided the number of clinical leads to whom we initially sent the invitation to participate by the number of participants who actually completed the online questionnaires.
This study has several strengths including the large number of participants, the complete nature of the dataset and the ability to adjust to multiple CKD risk factors.
