Table 4

Associations between social capital variables and hypertension detection, treatment and control (among participants aware of their hypertension) by country income group, ordinary least-square estimates from model specification including individual controls *, community controls† and community fixed effects

Dimension of social capitalHypertension treatmentHypertension control
HIC and UMICLMIC and LICHIC and UMICLMIC and LIC
Membership
 Coefficient−0.0020.014−0.0010.032
 SE0.0070.0120.0090.016
 Observations11 683491211 6834912
 R2 0.0400.0420.0190.015
 P value for difference in coefficients‡0.24250.0728
Trust in people
 Coefficient0.005−0.0070.0070.004
 SE0.0070.0090.0100.008
 Observations11 67910 51611 67910 516
 R2 0.0400.0190.0190.009
 P value for difference in coefficients‡0.28200.7960
Trust in organisations
 Coefficient−0.014−0.0370.008−0.002
 SE0.0090.0290.0120.029
 Observations11 61410 49411 61410 494
 R2 0.0410.0200.0190.009
 P value for difference in coefficients‡0.45330.7474
  •  *Individual and household controls include sex, age, marital status, dummies for highest level of education obtained, dummies for household wealth quintiles, urban-rural location, current or recent history of tobacco use, alcohol user, diabetes, depression, obesity, pregnancy, recent loss of employment, dummies for country and year of data collection.

  • †Community controls include availability of any public health facility, any private health facility, availability of any antihypertensive medications at a retail pharmacy, number of different antihypertensive medication categories available at a retail pharmacy, presence of electric street lighting, presence of any traffic lights and completeness of paved roads.

  • ‡P value from Chow test for the equality of coefficients between HIC and UMIC vs LMIC and LIC groups.

  • HIC, high-income countries; LIC, low-income countries; LMIC, lower-middle-income countries; UMIC, upper-middle-income countries.