The relationship between diabetes-related knowledge and kidney disease knowledge, attitudes, and practices: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Characteristics of diabetic patients that are associated with attitude score related to prevention and early detection of chronic kidney disease in multiple linear regression

Variables ^a	Unstandardized coefficients (B)	Standardized coefficients (Beta)	P value ^b	95% Confidence interval for B
Constant	57.564		< 0.001	55.404 to 59.724
Age category (years)	1.542	0.138	0.007	0.426 to 2.658
Residency ^c	− 0.621	− 0.072	0.135	-1.437 to 0.195
Monthly income (NIS ^e )	0.951	0.119	0.016	0.177 to 1.725
Duration of DM (years)	− 0.002	0.000	0.997	-1.110 to 1.105
Types of medications for DM ^c	-1.008	− 0.145	0.003	-1.680 to − 0.336
Total number of medications other than DM medications	-1.706	− 0.127	0.010	-2.999 to − 0.414
Knowledge score	0.171	0.143	0.005	0.051 to 0.292
MDKT test	− 0.525	− 0.261	< 0.001	− 0.722 to − 0.329
R: 0.438; R Square: 0.192; Adjusted R Square: 0.175; Std. Error of the Estimate: 5.02076

Abbreviations: NIS: new Israeli shekel, DM: diabetes mellitus, MDKT: Michigan Diabetes Knowledge Test
^a Multiple linear regression was done on each factor with a p value < 0.05
^b cut-off level of significance was 0.05
^c Dummy coding was used to represent nominal variables
^D Knowledge scale contains 24 items (range 0–24, the higher the score, the better knowledge)

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