Medication Adherence Mediates the Association between Type D Personality and High HbA1c Level in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Six-Month Follow-Up Study

Table 4

Type D personality components: NA and SI on higher HbA1c level at T2.

	Step  1	Step  2	Step  3	Step  4
	OLS_NA SI	OLS_NA SI	OLS_NA SI	OLS_NA SI
Age
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Gender
	(0.087)	(0.087)	(0.087)	(0.086)
Education	0.100	0.101
	(0.062)	(0.062)	(0.064)	(0.063)
Marital status
	(0.037)	(0.038)	(0.038)	(0.037)
Personal income last year
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Reimbursement ratio of treatment costs
	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
Duration
	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.009)
Complications	0.009	0.008	0.009	0.005
	(0.026)	(0.026)	(0.026)	(0.026)
Cost of treating diabetes
	(0.022)	(0.023)	(0.023)	(0.023)
Family history	0.096	0.102	0.094	0.109
	(0.084)	(0.084)	(0.084)	(0.084)
BMI
	(0.013)	(0.013)	(0.013)	(0.013)
Baseline HbA1c value
	(0.022)	(0.022)	(0.021)	(0.021)
Sleep time every day	0.028	0.027	0.021	0.017
	(0.030)	(0.030)	(0.032)	(0.032)
The weekly exercise time	0.012	0.011	0.013	0.009
	(0.017)	(0.017)	(0.017)	(0.017)
Drinking behavior
	(0.094)	(0.094)	(0.095)	(0.094)
NA Type
	(0.131)	(0.139)
SI Type		0.187
	(0.120)	(0.349)
NA Type × SI Type		0.242
		(0.380)
NA score
			(0.013)	(0.015)
SI score
			(0.012)	(0.032)
NA score × SI score
				(0.002)
_cons
	(0.472)	(0.472)	(0.484)	(0.489)
Adjust-	0.844	0.843	0.842	0.843
	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Note: standard errors in parentheses; , , and .
In step 1 and step 2, Type D personality was analyzed as a categorical variable; in step 3 and step 4, NA and SI were analyzed as the continuous variables.