Research Article
Dietary Practice among Type 2 Diabetic Ppatients in Southern Ethiopia
Table 4
Dietary-related characteristics of diabetic patients attending follow-up at Arba Minch General Hospital, South Ethiopia, 2020 (n = 352).
| Variables | Categories | Frequency (n = 352) | Percent |
| Eating out of home | Yes | 62 | 17.6 | No | 290 | 82.4 |
| Availability of vegetables | Yes | 295 | 83.8 | No | 57 | 16.2 |
| Availability of fruits | Yes | 291 | 82.7 | No | 61 | 17.3 |
| Faced difficulty in choosing food? | Yes | 50 | 14.2 | No | 302 | 85.8 |
| Worry about high cost of foods | Yes | 188 | 53.4 | No | 164 | 46.6 |
| History of fasting before diabetes | Yes | 120 | 34.1 | No | 232 | 65.9 |
| History of fasting after diabetes | Yes | 72 | 20.5 | No | 280 | 79.5 |
| Diabetic knowledge | Good | 203 | 57.7 | Poor | 149 | 42.3 |
| Dietary practice | Poor | 143 | 40.6 | Good | 209 | 59.4 |
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