Research Article
Association of Demographic Variables with the Awareness of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients (T2DM) among the Northwest Population in Saudi Arabia
Table 3
Association of attitude of respondents towards the knowledge and level of care related to diabetes and its management with education.
| Questions | Demographic variables | Occupational status () | Working () | Not working () | | |
| Knowledge of diabetes | Is diabetes mellitus a lifestyle-related disease? | | | 0.516 | 0.474 | Is it important to do both fasting as well as postprandial blood sugar level for diagnosis and monitoring? | | | 0.372 | 0.543 | Apart from blood sugar level, are you aware about HbA1c? | | | 0.030 | 0.863 |
| Self-care practices | Are you aware of self-monitoring of blood glucose level in diabetes? | | | ≤0.001 | 0.991 | Is it necessary to consume high fiber diet in DM care? | | | 0.257 | 0.613 | Is foot care necessary in DM? | | | 0.050 | 0.824 |
| Knowledge regarding complications of DM | Unmanaged DM can cause eye problems or even blindness | | | 0.005 | 0.944 | Uncontrolled DM can affect your kidneys | | | 0.081 | 0.777 | Uncontrolled DM can cause ischemic heart disease. | | | 1.378 | 0.243 | Uncontrolled DM can cause stroke | | | 0.282 | 0.596 |
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Student’s -test; two-tailed is considered as significant. |