Participants in the study
| Number | Number of groups | Gender | Ethnicity | Alarm type | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | Not specified | White | Black | Bengali | Other | Not specified | Ionisation zinc battery | Ionisation zinc battery pause button | Ionisation lithium battery pause button | Optical lithium battery | Optical zinc battery | |||
| Working people | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Older people | 19 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | |
| Parents | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| House bound | 3 | N/A | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Non-English speakers | 6 | N/A | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Other | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Intention to treat | 10 | N/A | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Total adult | 58 | 10 | 21 | 37 | 0 | 39 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Total children | 41 | 4 | – | – | 41 | – | – | – | – | 41 | N/A | ||||