Participants’ characteristics at baseline (when elevated blood pressure was observed).

<p>Have no financial hardship was defined by the answer of “not very hard” to the question of “How hard is it for you (and your family) to pay for the very basics like food and heating?” P-values were based on pair-wise chi-square test for categorical variables and pairwise t test for continuous variables.</p><p>Participants’ characteristics at baseline (when elevated blood pressure was observed).</p

Health behavior changes after the feedback by comparison groups.

<p>Ns are the numbers of study participants in the initial observation with the at risk behavior.</p><p>Health behavior changes after the feedback by comparison groups.</p

Sensitivity analysis: odds ratio of behavior changes by participants’ characteristics in the subsequent examination (diagnosed patients only).

<p>*statistically significant p<0.1</p><p>**p<0.05 compared with reference group, by multiple logistic regression.</p><p>Sensitivity analysis: odds ratio of behavior changes by participants’ characteristics in the subsequent examination (diagnosed patients only).</p

Odds ratio of behavior changes by participants’ characteristics in the subsequent examination.

<p>*statistically significant p<0.1</p><p>**p<0.05 compared with reference group, by multiple logistic regression.</p><p>Odds ratio of behavior changes by participants’ characteristics in the subsequent examination.</p

Conceptual model: adopted from Andersen’s model of health care utilization behavior.

<p>Conceptual model: adopted from Andersen’s model of health care utilization behavior.</p