Table 2. Internal consistency of the SDSCA measure subscales (N=102).

* non-significant, ** significant at 0.01

SDSCA: Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities

Scales	Items	Item to scale correlation	Inter-item correlation	Cronbach’s alpha
Diet
General	1	1	0.86	0.93
	2	0.86**
Specific	3	0.39**	-0.05*	-0.10
	4	-0.13
Exercise	5	0.33**	0.73	0.86
	6	0.29**
Blood sugar testing	7	0.10	0.85	0.93
	8	0.18
Foot care	9	0.25	0.58	0.69
	10	0.27**
All items				0.72