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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of study participants

From: Ethical considerations around volunteer payments in a malaria human infection study in Kenya: an embedded empirical ethics study

Location

Kilifi

Ahero

Total (%)

Characteristics

Male

Female

Male

Female

Volunteers

Age (years)

 19–29

3

5

4

3

15 (40.5%)

 30–40

6

3

3

3

15 (40.5%)

 41–51

2

3

1

1

7 (18.9%)

Education levela

 None

0

2

0

0

2 (5.4%)

 Primary

5

5

1

1

12 (32.4%)

 Secondary

3

1

4

4

12 (32.4%)

 Tertiary

0

1

3

2

6 (16.2%)

 Unavailable

3

2

0

0

5 (13.5%)

Occupation

 None

3

4

0

1

8 (21.6%)

 Student

0

0

3

0

3 (8.1%)

 Subsistence farming

1

5

0

0

6 (16.2%)

 Self-employed/business

5

1

5

5

16 (43.2%)

 Employed

2

1

0

1

4 (10.8%)

 Total

11

11

8

7

37 (100%)

Other stakeholders

Category of stakeholder

 Investigators/clinicians

1

4

3

0

8 (13.3%)

 FWs/CHVs

12

7

1

3

23 (38.3%)

 CLG/CE staff

2

1

–

1

4 (6.7%)

 Chiefs

2

1

2

0

5 (8.3%)

 KCRs

12

8

0

0

20 (33.3%)

 Total

29

21

6

4

60 (100%)

Total participants

40

32

12

11

97

  1. Adapted from Chi et al. [8]
  2. aInformation on occupation for 5 volunteers is missing