Table 3.

Association of PTSD symptoms with FoH, and depressive symptoms by using generalized linear models (n = 242)

	FoH (CHFSII-WS)		Depressive symptoms (PHQ-9)
	β (95% CI)	P value	β (95% CI)	P value
Model 1	0.0132(0.0025,0.0239)	0.016	0.0172(0.0100,0.0245)	< 0.0001
Model 2	0.0161(0.0041,0.0280)	0.009	0.0162(0.0090,0.0233)	< 0.0001
Model 3	0.0171(0.0055,0.0287)	0.004	0.0148(0.0076,0.0220)	< 0.0001

Model 1: unadjusted

Model 2: adjusted for age (continuous), gender, marital status, educational attainment, residential area, and diabetes treatment affordability

Model 3: further adjusted for diabetes duration(continuous), glucose-lowering medication types, history of hypoglycemia, history of COVID-19, and the number of diabetes-related comorbidities (continuous)

PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder, FoH Fear of hypoglycemia, CHFSII-WS Chinese version of Hypoglycemia Fear Survey II-Worry Scale, PHQ-9 Patient health questionnaire-9, CI Confidence interval