Table 2.
Knowledge scores
| Peer advisers in diabetes (PADs) group | Specialist health professionals (SHPs) group | Group difference | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge domain | Before | After | Mean change (sd) | Median change | P-value (change) | Before | After | Mean change (sd) | Median change | P-value (change) | Unadjusted P-value | Adjusted P-value |
| What is diabetes | 82.6 | 89.0 | 6.4 (12.1) | 6.0 | 0.003 | 81.2 | 85.7 | 4.5 (16.5) | 0.0 | 0.130 | 0.391 | 0.999 |
| Nutrition | 70.7 | 76.5 | 5.8 (10.5) | 4.0 | 0.001 | 73.4 | 78.3 | 4.9 (12.8) | 4.0 | 0.017 | 0.644 | 0.814 |
| Exercise | 74.4 | 88.2 | 13.8 (20.7) | 14.0 | 0.001 | 76.2 | 86.6 | 10.4 (18.2) | 14.0 | 0.003 | 0.998 | 0.924 |
| Monitoring | 60.7 | 75.2 | 14.5 (17.8) | 10.0 | < 0.001 | 67.6 | 73.1 | 5.5 (18.7) | 0.0 | 0.148 | 0.045 | 0.117 |
| Medicines | 58.0 | 66.6 | 8.6 (22.9) | 11.0 | 0.011 | 57.8 | 65.3 | 7.5 (15.5) | 0.0 | 0.016 | 0.273 | 0.469 |
| Total | 71.2 | 78.9 | 7.7 (8.7) | 9.0 | < 0.001 | 72.9 | 78.7 | 5.8 (11.1) | 6.0 | 0.002 | 0.777 | 0.797 |
Units are expressed as per cent.
Adjusted P-value: significance of group effect after adjustment for blood pressure, body mass index, age, gender, duration of diabetes and glycated haemoglobin in multiple linear regression.
sd, standard deviation.