Association of Demographic Variables with the Awareness of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients (T2DM) among the Northwest Population in Saudi Arabia

Table 2

Association of attitude of respondents towards the knowledge and level of care related to diabetes and its management with age and gender.

Questions	Overall	Age ()				Gender
		Late adulthood ()	Young old age ()			Male ()	Female ()
Knowledge of diabetes
Is diabetes mellitus a lifestyle-related disease?				1.184	0.239			-2.231	0.028
Is it important to do both fasting as well as postprandial blood sugar level for diagnosis and monitoring?				0.174	0.266			1.243	0.217
Apart from blood sugar level, are you aware about HbA1c?				-0.204	0.840			0.726	0.470
Self-care practices
Are you aware of self-monitoring of blood glucose level in diabetes?				-0.649	0.518			-2.361	0.020
Is it necessary to consume high fiber diet in DM care?				-0.525	0.601			-0.051	0.959
Is foot care necessary in DM?				0.271	0.787			-1.595	0.114
Knowledge regarding complications of DM
Unmanaged DM can cause eye problems or even blindness				1.356	0.178			0.024	0.981
Uncontrolled DM can affect your kidneys				-0.624	0.534			-0.879	0.381
Uncontrolled DM can cause ischemic heart disease.				-0.528	0.599			-0.904	0.368
Uncontrolled DM can cause stroke				-0.457	0.648			2.129	0.034

Student’s t-test; two-tailed is considered as significant.