Community participation and sustainability – evidence over 25 years in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme

Figures & data

Fig. 1.  Annual number of participants and non-participants in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP), 1990–2006. The dashed vertical line indicates 1995, the year the VIP was integrated into basic primary health care services.

Table 1. Number of participants and participation rates (%) in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP), 1990–2006, among men, by background characteristics

		Participation rate
Characteristics	Number	1990–1994	1995–1998	1999–2002	2003–2006	Overall (1990–2006)
Age (yr)
40	15,674	54.0	51.7	53.9	59.5	54.8
50	16,799	55.2	54.5	59.7	63.4	58.1
60	13,974	54.9	60.8	61.7	64.8	60.9
Country of birth^a
Sweden	44,679	55.5	56.1	59.4	63.3	58.6
EU	1,150	40.2	41.8	43.9	55.4	45.2
Non-EU	617	33.2	29.4	35.4	42.5	35.9
Marital status
Married	34,980	58.3	59.5	62.6	67.3	61.8
Single	11,466	44.2	44.0	48.9	53.1	47.9
Education
High	9,294	55.6	51.6	57.0	61.6	56.6
Middle	25,724	55.8	56.7	60.0	63.9	59.4
Low	11,428	52.7	54.8	55.1	59.1	54.9
Individual income
High	18,709	58.6	57.0	61.7	66.5	60.9
Middle	19,159	56.2	57.3	60.8	65.3	60.1
Low	8,578	44.5	48.5	48.2	50.5	48.0
Residence
Urban	17,106	54.0	46.2	55.6	62.2	54.7
Semi	15,960	48.9	59.3	60.2	61.8	57.6
Rural	13,380	63.0	61.8	59.6	64.1	62.1
Number of prior hospitalisations
0	34,752	55.5	56.1	59.9	63.8	59.0
1	7,394	56.8	54.8	57.9	61.8	57.7
2+	4,300	47.5	49.6	47.0	52.4	49.0
Prior CVD hospitalisations
No	44,063	55.1	55.6	59.0	63.2	58.2
Yes	2,383	47.3	48.4	47.2	52.9	49.1
Total	46,446	54.7	55.1	58.3	62.5	57.7

^aEU is European Union. Non-EU is non-European Union.

Table 2. Number of participants and participation rates (%) in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP), 1990–2006, among women, by background characteristics

		Participation rate
Characteristics	Number	1990–1994	1995–1998	1999–2002	2003–2006	Overall (1990–2006)
Age (yr)
40	16,857	62.9	60.3	59.8	64.6	61.9
50	17,941	63.8	64.1	65.6	68.3	65.4
60	15,316	61.9	67.4	66.5	69.7	66.5
Country of birth^a
Sweden	47,736	63.6	64.6	64.8	68.1	65.3
EU	1,822	54.3	52.9	55.1	63.2	56.2
Non-EU	556	36.0	33.1	42.1	52.1	43.1
Marital status
Married	37,753	65.6	66.5	67.3	70.9	67.5
Single	12,361	55.2	55.7	55.6	60.0	56.8
Education
High	14,356	62.3	59.6	63.6	68.1	63.7
Middle	26,394	65.4	66.1	65.1	68.3	66.3
Low	9,364	59.5	62.9	61.0	62.6	61.2
Individual income
High	6,675	65.2	62.0	65.7	68.8	65.5
Middle	31,894	66.6	67.7	68.1	71.8	68.5
Low	11,545	52.8	54.6	54.4	58.3	55.1
Residence
Urban	19,230	62.5	54.7	60.9	67.0	61.4
Semi	17,422	58.1	68.3	67.2	66.6	65.0
Rural	13,462	70.0	70.7	64.4	69.8	68.8
Number of prior hospitalisations
0	33,522	63.1	65.6	65.8	69.2	66.1
1	10,122	66.1	63.3	63.1	66.6	64.8
2+	6,470	58.7	56.3	55.1	58.2	57.2
Prior CVD hospitalisations
No	48,461	63.2	64.1	64.5	68.0	65.0
Yes	1,653	56.6	51.2	50.8	56.2	53.8
Total	50,114	62.9	63.6	63.9	67.5	64.5

^aEU is European Union. Non-EU is non-European Union.

Table 3. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for non-participation in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP), 1990–2006, by socio-economic characteristics and period. Of the 117,710 individuals eligible for participation during 1990–2006, 40,472 were eligible twice. Thus, there were 158,182 total observations

	Participants
Characteristics	Yes (n)	No (n)	Univariable model OR (95% CI)	Multivariable model OR (95% CI)
Sex
Women	50,114	27,558	1	1
Men	40,446	34,064	1.33 (1.31–1.36)	1.37 (1.34–1.40)
Age (yr)
40	29,289	16,692	1	1
50	34,740	21,615	1.09 (1.06–1.12)	1.23 (1.20–1.26)
60	32,531	23,315	1.26 (1.23–1.29)	1.42 (1.38–1.46)
Country of birth^a
Sweden	92,415	56,975	1	1
EU	2,972	2,810	1.53 (1.46–1.62)	1.39 (1.31–1.46)
Non-EU	1,173	1,837	2.54 (2.36–2.74)	1.90 (1.76–2.05)
Marital status
Married	72,733	39,761	1	1
Single	23,827	21,861	1.68 (1.64–1.72)	1.60 (1.57–1.64)
Education
High	23,650	15,317	1	1
Middle	52,118	30,996	0.92 (0.90–0.94)	0.89 (0.87–0.91)
Low	20,792	15,309	1.13 (1.10–1.17)	1.05 (1.02–1.09)
Individual income
High	25,384	15,551	1	1
Middle	51,053	27,361	0.87 (0.85–0.90)	0.98 (0.96–1.01)
Low	20,123	18,710	1.52 (1.48–1.56)	1.60 (1.55–1.65)
Residence
Urban	26,842	14,272	1	1
Semi	33,382	21,104	1.19 (1.16–1.22)	1.25 (1.21–1.28)
Rural	36,336	26,246	1.36 (1.32–1.39)	1.38 (1.34–1.41)
Number of prior hospitalisations
0	68,274	41,385	1	1
1	17,516	10,925	1.03 (1.00–1.06)	0.98 (0.95–1.01)
2+	10,770	9,312	1.43 (1.38–1.47)	1.18 (1.14–1.22)
Prior CVD hospitalisations
No	92,524	57,728	1	1
Yes	4,036	3,894	1.55 (1.48–1.62)	1.35 (1.28–1.42)
Time period
2003–2006	26,559	14,320	1	1
1999–2002	22,889	14,579	1.18 (1.15–1.22)	1.19 (1.16–1.22)
1995–1998	23,336	16,042	1.27 (1.24–1.31)	1.28 (1.25–1.32)
1990–1994	23,776	16.681	1.30 (1.26–1.34)	1.32 (1.28–1.36)

^aEU is European Union. Non-EU is non-European Union.