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

Table 5

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

Questions	Education status ()
	Illiterate ()	Primary ()	High school ()	College ()
Knowledge of diabetes
Is diabetes mellitus a lifestyle-related disease?					7.799	≤0.001
Is it important to do both fasting as well as postprandial blood sugar level for diagnosis and monitoring?					0.281	0.839
Apart from blood sugar level, are you aware about HbA1c?					2.913	0.038
Self-care practices
Are you aware of self-monitoring of blood glucose level in diabetes?					1.315	0.274
Is it necessary to consume high fiber diet in DM care?					1.427	0.240
Is foot care necessary in DM?					2.447	0.69
Knowledge regarding complications of DM
Unmanaged DM can cause eye problems or even blindness					1.709	0.170
Uncontrolled DM can affect your kidneys					1.840	0.145
Uncontrolled DM can cause ischemic heart disease.					1.023	0.386
Uncontrolled DM can cause stroke					0.362	0.781

One way ANOVA test; two-tailed is considered as significant.