Table 6 Awareness/understanding of causes and symptoms of diabetes for the total group and by gender, origin, age and BMI groups
From: Health status of primary school educators in low socio-economic areas in South Africa
Contributing to diabetes2 | Symptoms of diabetes2 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Category | N1 | Sugar & sweets | Super natural | Obesity | Fatty foods | Being very thirsty | Peeing all the time | Vomiting | Weight loss | Constant hunger | Slow healing if wounds | Blurred vision | Repeated infections |
Gender | |||||||||||||
Male | 196 | 65.6 | 10.0 | 79.7 | 90.7 | 76.7 | 61.7 | 11.3 | 71.6 | 46.9 | 77.3 | 71.7 | 42.1 |
Female | 321 | 57.8 | 12.5 | 73.3 | 90.3 | 84.5 | 59.8 | 10.4 | 74.0 | 55.9 | 82.6 | 73.3 | 42.8 |
p-value 3 | 0.005 | 0.393 | 0.105 | 0.878 | 0.026 | 0.679 | 0.751 | 0.567 | 0.049 | 0.144 | 0.679 | 0.877 | |
Origin | |||||||||||||
Rural | 329 | 55.4 | 13.4 | 75.9 | 90.5 | 80.5 | 60.9 | 11.2 | 68.9 | 52.5 | 80.8 | 74.6 | 41.1 |
Urban | 188 | 61.6 | 8.2 | 75.5 | 90.2 | 83.4 | 59.9 | 10.2 | 80.2 | 52.4 | 80.2 | 69.4 | 45.1 |
p-value 3 | 0.007 | 0.111 | 0.408 | 0.237 | 0.411 | 0.828 | 0.745 | 0.006 | 0.986 | 0.871 | 0.20 | 0.377 | |
Age categories | |||||||||||||
<30 | 10 | 100.0 | 20.0 | 80.0 | 80.0 | 66.7 | 30.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 70.0 | 40.0 | 40.0 |
30-49 | 366 | 58.8 | 9.5 | 76.6 | 91.5 | 79.8 | 60.8 | 11.6 | 72.3 | 53.6 | 79.8 | 73.6 | 43.1 |
>50 | 130 | 50.8 | 15.8 | 70.9 | 87.5 | 86.7 | 59.4 | 9.4 | 74.8 | 50.0 | 83.4 | 72.7 | 38.6 |
p-value3 | 0.007 | 0.111 | 0.408 | 0.237 | 0.145 | 0.419 | 0.419 | 0.236 | 0.570 | 0.448 | 0.063 | 0.671 | |
BMI | |||||||||||||
Normal | 113 | 55.1 | 7.3 | 72.5 | 87.2 | 72.1 | 51.5 | 9.0 | 68.5 | 45.9 | 74.8 | 63.1 | 41.4 |
Overweight | 162 | 62.4 | 11.7 | 77.6 | 89.2 | 83.1 | 64.6 | 10.7 | 72.2 | 56.1 | 76.1 | 73.4 | 40.8 |
Obese | 242 | 55.7 | 13.3 | 76.1 | 92.7 | 84.9 | 62.1 | 11.7 | 77.1 | 56.1 | 86.3 | 76.7 | 44.3 |
p-value 3 | 0.347 | 0.272 | 0.629 | 0.219 | 0.013 | 0.073 | 0.756 | 0.080 | 0.203 | 0.009 | 0.028 | 0.763 | |
Total | 517 | 57.7 | 11.5 | 75.8 | 90.4 | 81.6 | 60.5 | 10.8 | 73.1 | 52.5 | 80.6 | 72.7 | 42.5 |