Psychometric evaluation of the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) survey in Southern, rural African American women with Type 2 diabetes

Table 3 Pearson correlations between scores on the PAID, Lack of Confidence in Self-Care Implementation Subscale, and Emotional Consequences of Self-Care Implementation and scores on the CES-D, SDSCA subscales, and demographic and clinical factors.

	PAID	Lack of Confidence in Self-Care Implementation	Emotional Consequences of Self-care Implementation
PAID	1.0
Lack of Confidence in Self-Care Implementation	0.83*	1.0
Emotional Consequences of Self-care Implementation	0.97*	0.69*	1.0
CES-D	0.58*	0.58*	0.55*
General Diet (SDSCA)-2 items	-0.27*	0.30*	-0.23*
Physical Activity (SDSCA)-1 item	-0.26*	-0.20	-0.25*
Exercise (SDSCA)-1 item	-0.24*	-0.13	-0.27*
Glucose Monitoring (SDSCA)-2 items	-0.15	-0.12	-0.14
Foot Inspections (SDSCA)-2 items	-0.18*	-0.22*	-0.14
Taking Medications-1 item	-0.03	-0.10	-0.02
Age	-0.24*	-0.23*	-0.22*
Hba1c	0.21	0.27*	0.17
BMI	0.18	0.08	0.20*

*p ≤ 0.05
PAID = Problem Areas In Diabetes Scale; CES-D = Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale; SDSca = Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Scale

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