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 4

Patient response and subgroup analysis of practice 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)
(19) Last checked blood sugar as advised	149 (64.2)	128 (63)	21 (72.4)	0.43	91 (63.6)	58 (65.1)	0.92	70 (61.9)	79 (66.3)	0.5
(20) Last checked blood pressure as advised	184 (79.3)	160 (78.8)	24 (82.7)	0.80	111 (77.6)	73 (82.0)	0.5	92 (81.4)	92 (77.3)	0.5
(21) Last gone for eye checkup as advised	190 (81.9)	166 (81.7)	24 (82.7)	1	115 (80.4)	75 (84.2)	0.57	96 (84.9)	94 (78.9)	0.3
(22) Medicines for DM being taken regularly	210 (90.5)	183 (90.1)	27 (93.1)	0.8	127 (88.8)	83 (93.2)	0.37	109 (96.4)	101 (84.8)
(23) Foot care practiced regularly	129 (55.6)	110 (54.1)	19 (65.5)	0.3	72 (50.3)	57 (64.0)		68 (60.1)	61 (51.2)	0.21
(24) Planned and controlled diet is followed	177 (76.3)	155 (76.3)	22 (75.8)	1	105 (73.4)	72 (80.8)	0.25	86 (76.1)	91 (76.4)	1
(25) Exercise being done regularly	125 (53.9)	109 (53.6)	16 (55.1)	1	71 (49.6)	54 (60.6)	0.1	60 (53.0)	65 (54.6)	0.9

Statistically significant.