Changing Clinical Presentation, Current Knowledge-Attitude-Practice, and Current Vision Related Quality of Life in Self-Reported Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Retinopathy in Eastern India: The LVPEI Eye and Diabetes Study

Table 2

Patient response and subgroup analysis of knowledge questions.

Question	Response	DM duration			Education			DR status
	(%)	<20 y	≥20 y		<grad	≥grad		Yes	No
	232 (100)	203 (87.5)	29 (12.5)		143 (61.6)	89 (38.4)		113 (48.7)	119 (51.3)
(1) DM is a condition where body sugar level is high	194 (83.6)	171 (84.2)	23 (79)	0.68	118 (82.5)	76 (85.39)	0.69	95 (84)	99 (83.1)	0.99
(2) DM control requires medicine & life style changes	192 (82.8)	166 (81.7)	26 (89.6)	0.43	110 (76.9)	82 (92.13)	0.00	93 (82.3)	99 (83.19)	0.99
(3) Required life style changes in DM patient are: weight reduction/stop smoking/stop alcohol/careful diet	157 (67.7)	136 (66.6)	21 (72.4)	0.7	92 (64.3)	65 (73.03)	0.21	76 (67.2)	81 (68.0)	1
(4) Most accurate method of DM monitoring is by checking blood sugar level	178 (76.7)	156 (76.8)	22 (75.8)	0.1	108 (75.5)	70 (78.6)	0.69	88 (77.8)	90 (75.6)	0.80
(5) DM complication(s) is/are: eye, kidney, heart, foot	177 (76.3)	157 (77.33)	20 (68.9)	0.44	101 (70.6)	76 (85.3)		83 (73.4)	94 (78.9)	0.40
(6) DR is a complication affecting the eye	152 (65.5)	130 (64)	22 (75)	0.29	84 (58.7)	68 (76.8)	0.00	74 (65.4)	78 (65.5)	1
(7) DR affect the following eye parts: lens, retina, blood vessels	59 (25.4)	49 (24.13)	10 (34.4)	0.33	32 (22.3)	27 (30.3)	0.23	28 (24.7)	31 (26.0)	0.94
(8) Risk of eye complication is more with: longer duration of DM/poor blood sugar control/increased blood pressure	86 (37.1)	73 (35.9)	13 (44.8)	0.47	46 (32.16)	40 (44.9)		41 (36.2)	45 (37.8)	0.91
(9) Treatment options of eye complications of DM are: laser/medical therapy/surgery	69 (29.7)	57 (28.07)	12 (41.37)	0.21	39 (27.2)	30 (33.7)	0.37	31 (27.4)	38 (31.9)	0.54
(10) Detected on time, vision loss due to DR is treatable.	141 (61.2)	120 (59.11)	21 (72.4)	0.24	83 (58.64)	58 (65.1)	0.34	69 (61.0)	72 (60.5)	1

Statistically significant or tend to be significant.