Research Article
Ethnic Minorities with Diabetes Differ in Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms and Diabetes-Distress
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of respondents (
) and nonrespondents (
) divided by reason of nonresponding.
| Characteristic | Respondents () | Combined nonrespondents () | Refusers () | Language difficulties () | n (%) or mean ± SD | n (%) or mean ± SD | n (%) or mean ± SD | n (%) or mean ± SD |
| Gender | | | | | Men | 315 (55.3%) | 237 (54.9%) | 106 (52.2%) | 131 (57.2%) | Women | 255 (44.7%) | 195 (45.1%) | 97 (47.8%) | 98 (42.8%) | Mean age (SD) | 58.5 (14.0) | 61.9 (13.0) | 63.7 (13.3) | 60.4 (12.6) | HbA1c % (mmol/mol) | 7.8% (62) | 8.1% (65) | 7.9% (63) | 8.3% (67) | BMI | 30.1 (6.5) | 31.4 (6.3) | 31.1 (6.2) | 31.7 (6.5) | Socioeconomic status | | | | | Nonlow | 360 (62.5%) | 199 (48.5%) | 108 (54.8%) | 91 (42.7%) | Low | 205 (35.6%) | 211 (51.5%) | 89 (45.2%) | 122 (57.3%) |
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