Research Article
Prevalence of Depression in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes between 10 and 17 Years of Age in Jordan
Table 2
Differences in the clinical and diabetes care practice characteristics between the 2 groups of patients in the study.
| | Depression () | Depression () | value | | Categorical variables | | Pubertal status | | | 0.203 | | Yes | 35 (60.3%) | 36 (72.0%) | | | No | 23 (39.7%) | 14 (28.0%) | | | Type of insulin regimen | | | 0.805 | | Multiple dose injection | 53 (91.4%) | 45 (90.0%) | | | Triple dose injection | 5 (8.6%) | 5 (10.0%) | | | Compliance to counting carbohydrate | | | 0.321 | | Always/mostly | 39 (67.2%) | 29 (58.0%) | | | Never/rarely | 19 (32.8%) | 21 (42.0%) | | | Who decide insulin dose | | | 0.938 | | Mother | 41 (70.7%) | 35 (70.0%) | | | Patient herself/himself | 17 (29.3%) | 15 (30.0%) | | | Hospital admission rate | | | 0.013 | | 0 (no admission) | 47 (81.0%) | 30 (60.0%) | | | <1 | 10 (17.2%) | 20 (40.0%) | | | >1 | 1 (1.7%) | 0 (0%) | | | Frequency of daily glucose testing | | | 0.001 | | Always/mostly | 57 (98.3%) | 32 (64.0%) | | | Rarely/never | 1 (1.7%) | 18 (36.0%) | |
| | Depression () | Depression () | value | | Continuous variables | | HbA1c (%) (mmol/mol) | () | () | 0.034 | | Current BMI -score | | | 0.249 | | Duration of diabetes (years) | | | 0.041 | | Number of clinic visits over the last year | | | 0.355 |
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Chi-squared test ( ). Independent samples test. |
