Journal of Diabetes Research

Research Article

Optimising Health Literacy and Access of Service Provision to Community Dwelling Older People with Diabetes Receiving Home Nursing Support

Table 3

Intervention participant demographics.


Age	Mean (SD) = 75.3 ± 13.2, range 51 to 98
Gender	Female: = 16 (66.7%); male: = 8 (33.3%)
Years with diabetes	Mean (SD) = , range 0.1 to 35 = 23 of 24 clients had type 2 diabetes ( = 1 missing data)
Medication type	Oral medication only ( = 9, 37.5%); insulin only ( = 5, 20.8%); both ( = 9, 33%); none ( = 1, 4%); missing ( = 1, 4%)
Ever seen diabetes educator	Yes = 18 (75%); no = 6 (25%)
Ever seen dietitian	Yes = 14 (58.3%); no = 10 (41.7%)
SEIFA index of relative disadvantage	SEIFA < 1000, = 17 (71%)
SEIFA index of relative disadvantage	SEIFA ≥ 1000, = 7 (29%)

ABS: socioeconomic indexes for areas (SEIFA) index of relative disadvantage [19]. Note: a lower score indicates that an area is relatively disadvantaged compared to an area with a higher score. Index scores have been standardised to have a mean of 1,000.