Health Related Quality of Life among Omani Men and Women with Type 2 Diabetes
Table 4
Combined effect of predictors on QoL and health state: multivariate tests/GLM.
Wilks’s lambda
Men
Women
Effect
Value
Sig./
Value
Sig./
Intercept
0.586
45.957
0.000
0.607
46.602
0.000
Age
0.965
2.391
0.050
0.804
17.581
0.000
Schooling
0.995
0.307
0.736
0.996
0.300
0.741
Years of diabetes
0.927
5.155
0.007
0.977
1.706
0.185
Self-care activities
0.996
0.252
0.778
0.974
1.950
0.146
Diabetes education program
0.937
4.340
0.015
0.961
2.892
0.050
DM prevents activities of daily living
0.898
7.365
0.001
0.983
1.235
0.294
Ability to manage positively
0.953
3.210
0.044
0.998
0.112
0.894
Knowledge of diabetes/management
0.995
0.306
0.737
1.000
0.034
0.966
Medications
0.981
1.249
0.290
0.993
0.528
0.591
Body mass index
0.926
5.176
0.007
0.968
2.377
0.050
HbA1c
0.993
0.428
0.653
0.988
0.877
0.418
is the level of significance (sig). Design: intercept + age + schooling + duration of diabetes + self-care activities + diabetes education program + perceiving DM prevents activities of daily living + ability to manage positively + knowledge of diabetes and its management + medications + BMI + HbA1c.
