Table 8. Patients characteristics associated with Practice Score in stepwise linear regression (n = 575).

Model	Un -standardized Coefficients		Sig.
	B	Std. Error
(Constant)	20.081	.865	.000
Married	1.250	.617	.043
DM duration	0.096	.039	.014
Level of education	0.732	.280	.009
Freq. of seeing diabetes educator	0.541	.173	.002

Dependent Variable: Total Practice Scores. Co variables entered were: level of education, sex, age, type of DM (insulin treated/not on insulin), married, frequency of seeing a DM educator in the past 2 years, duration of DM, UAE nationality, family income, mode of diagnosis, family history of DM, being employed.