Knowledge, attitude, and practice of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with regard to their disease: a cross-sectional study among Palestinians of the West Bank

Shawahna, Ramzi; Samaro, Saed; Ahmad, Zaid

doi:10.1186/s12889-021-10524-2

Table 5 Multiple linear regression between sociodemographic and clinical variables of the patients with knowledge, attitude, and practice scores

From: Knowledge, attitude, and practice of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with regard to their disease: a cross-sectional study among Palestinians of the West Bank

Variable	Unadjusted Coefficients	SE	Adjusted Coefficients	t	p-value
Knowledge score
Gender	−0.03	0.38	−0.01	− 0.07	0.942
Marital status	−0.01	0.32	0.00	−0.03	0.979
Employment	0.13	0.44	0.03	0.30	0.762
Place of residence	−0.18	0.35	−0.03	− 0.51	0.609
Educational level	1.47	0.42	0.27	3.49	0.001
Monthly income	0.43	0.25	0.13	1.71	0.088
Having a health insurance	−0.40	0.40	− 0.07	−1.02	0.307
Having attended an educational program	0.23	0.55	0.03	0.42	0.676
Age	−0.04	0.02	−0.17	−1.82	0.070
Time elapsed since diagnosis	0.03	0.03	0.09	0.97	0.332
Body Mass Index	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.01	0.990
Fasting plasma glucose	−0.01	0.01	−0.19	−1.55	0.123
Postprandial plasma glucose	0.00	0.01	−0.02	− 0.14	0.887
HbA_1c	0.10	0.18	0.06	0.57	0.568
Attitude score
Gender	−0.20	0.21	− 0.08	− 0.96	0.338
Marital status	0.11	0.18	0.05	0.60	0.552
Employment	0.01	0.25	0.00	0.04	0.966
Place of residence	−0.08	0.20	−0.03	−0.40	0.687
Educational level	0.12	0.24	0.04	0.50	0.617
Monthly income	0.00	0.14	0.00	−0.02	0.982
Having a health insurance	−0.13	0.22	−0.04	− 0.59	0.554
Having attended an educational program	0.12	0.31	0.03	0.40	0.689
Age	0.00	0.01	0.00	−0.03	0.977
Time elapsed since diagnosis	0.01	0.02	0.08	0.80	0.426
Body Mass Index	−0.02	0.02	−0.09	−1.25	0.211
Fasting plasma glucose	0.00	0.00	−0.01	−0.04	0.964
Postprandial plasma glucose	−0.01	0.00	−0.30	−1.86	0.064
HbA_1c	0.08	0.10	0.09	0.79	0.432
Practice score
Gender	−0.16	0.26	− 0.05	− 0.62	0.536
Marital status	−0.05	0.22	−0.02	− 0.24	0.813
Employment	−0.26	0.30	− 0.08	− 0.86	0.393
Place of residence	0.03	0.24	0.01	0.14	0.891
Educational level	0.35	0.29	0.09	1.20	0.232
Monthly income	−0.03	0.17	−0.01	− 0.15	0.882
Having a health insurance	−0.14	0.27	−0.03	− 0.53	0.599
Having attended an educational program	0.85	0.38	0.15	2.24	0.026
Age	−0.01	0.01	−0.09	− 0.93	0.353
Time elapsed since diagnosis	−0.02	0.02	−0.09	− 0.97	0.333
Body Mass Index	−0.03	0.02	−0.11	−1.57	0.119
Fasting plasma glucose	0.01	0.01	0.13	1.07	0.287
Postprandial plasma glucose	−0.01	0.00	−0.28	−1.84	0.068
HbA_1c	− 0.15	0.12	− 0.13	−1.19	0.234

HbA_1c Glycated hemoglobin, SE standard error, t t statistic

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