Sociodemographic and Clinical Predictors of Self-Management among People with Poorly Controlled Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of Illness Perceptions and Self-Efficacy
Table 1
Bivariate relationships between sociodemographic and disease characteristic variables and psychosocial dependent variables.
Variable
IP score
PDSMS score
Diet SMG
Exercise SMG
SMBG
Foot SMG
Overall SMG
Age
−0.03
−0.02
0.03
−0.12
−0.01
0.24
0.08
Sexpb
0.04
−0.10
0.12
0.03
0.18
0.02
0.16
Marital statusρ
0.16
−0.12
−0.14
−0.16
−0.07
−0.01
−0.11
Educational qualificationρ
−0.16
0.16
−0.09
0.12
−0.01
0.10
−0.02
Ethnicity
0.01
0.03
0.09
0.05
−0.05
0.22
0.12
Employment statusρ
0.23
−0.09
−0.04
−0.20
−0.04
0.08
0.01
Diabetes typeρ
0.19
−0.20
0.06
−0.23
−0.26
0.13
−0.09
Diabetes treatment typeρ
0.21
−0.08
0.05
−0.14
0.39
0.07
0.12
Duration since diagnosis
−0.18
0.19
−0.01
0.05
0.33
0.13
0.18
BMI statusρ
0.21
−0.13
−0.08
−0.19
−0.16
0.15
−0.10
HbA1c (%) categoriesρ
−0.12
0.18
−0.18
0.22
0.07
0.04
0.10
BP statuspb
0.07
−0.01
0.12
−0.01
−0.09
0.15
0.02
Retinopathy statuspb
−0.01
0.03
−0.07
−0.04
0.11
0.07
0.07
Neuropathy statuspb
0.24
−0.14
−0.11
−0.20
−0.08
0.13
−0.09
Nephropathy statuspb
0.14
−0.06
0.10
0.09
−0.04
0.05
0.12
IP score
−0.16
−0.13
−0.01
0.04
−0.17
PDSMS score
−0.16
0.19
0.10
0.17
0.29
ρ, spearman’s rho; pb, point biserial correlation coefficient; all other correlation coefficients are Pearson’s correlation coefficients. value ≤ 0.05; value ≤ 0.01; value ≤ 0.001. IP, illness perception; PDSMS, Perceived Diabetes Self-Management Scale; SMG, self-management; SMBG, self-monitoring of blood glucose.