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

Student’s -test; two-tailed is considered as significant.