Assessment of Gap between Knowledge and Practices among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients at a Tertiary-Care Hospital in Bangladesh

Table 5

Multivariable regression analysis of BMI as a dependent variable with other parameters among patients with type 2 DM ().

Variable	B^1 ± SE	Beta^2	value	95% CI for B
				Lower	Upper
Age	0.344 ± 0.462	0.035	0.457	1.252	0.564
Gender	−1.624 ± 0.569	−0.205	0.005	−2.743	−0.505
Habitat	1.193 ± 1.08	0.05	0.270	−0.929	3.315
Education	−0.139 ± 0.261	−0.030	0.594	−0.652	0.374
Monthly income	0.570 ± 0.244	0.111	0.02	0.090	1.049
Occupation	−0.177 ± 0.270	−0.046	0.512	−0.706	0.353
Duration of DM	0.181 ± 0.371	0.023	0.625	−0.547	0.910
Family history of DM	−0.413 ± 0.389	−0.05	0.289	−1.177	0.351
Total knowledge score	0.002 ± 0.058	0.002	0.966	−0.111	0.116

Unstandardized sample regression coefficient. ²Standardized sample regression coefficient; adjusted ; overall model -test, ; DM: diabetes mellitus.