Table 2.

Poisson Regression Model Building Assessing Factors Related to the Diabetes Self-Care Activities of Diet and Physical Activity: African Americans

	Total Self-care Score (n=133)			General Diet (n=133)			Specific Diet (n=133)			Physical Activity (n=133)
Variable	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3
Patient-related attributes
Age	0.004	0.003	−0.001	0.016**	0.016**	0.011*	0.006§	0.005	0.002	−0.006	−0.009§	−0.015*
Gender (Female)	0.081	0.097	0.113	−0.036	−0.013	0.019	0.112	0.116	0.123	−0.007	0.032	0.045
Educationa
Less than HS	0.041	−0.017	0.046	−0.218*	−0.274*	−0.206§	−0.063	−0.481	−0.003	0.097	−0.022	0.063
HS Graduate/GED	0.052	−0.011	0.035	−0.272*	−0.332*	−0.292*	0.109	0.118	0.151	0.054	−0.095	−0.021
Health insurance status (No Insurance)	−0.072	−0.086	−0.089	−0.101	−0.103	−0.103	−0.148	−0.145	−0.147	0.021	−0.019	−0.012
Biomedical/Disease-related Factors
Body mass index		−0.008	−0.008		−0.008	−0.008		−0.003	−0.002		−0.022*	−0.021*
Glycemic control (A1c)		−0.003	−0.002		0.022	0.026		−0.003	−0.002		−0.012	−0.011
Household members with diabetesb
One person		−0.069	−0.066		−0.005	0.016		−0.026	−0.024		−0.236§	−0.237§
More than one person		−0.043	0.015		−0.099	−0.024		−0.011	0.033		−0.129	−0.052
Insulin Use (no insulin use)		−0.127	−0.176§		−0.099	−0.158		0.072	0.037		−0.215§	−0.284*
Psychosocial Constructs
Diabetes distress			−0.146*			−0.202**			−0.102*			−0.187**
Diabetes-related psychosocial self-efficacy			0.131§			0.115			0.094			0.222*
r2	0.03	0.04	0.16	0.16	0.19	0.33	0.07	0.08	0.14	0.02	0.10	0.24
Goodness-of-fit test—Chi-Square, df		2.66, 4	16.87, 2		4.71, 4	24.67, 2		1.02, 4	8.52, 2		11.56, 4	22.99, 2
P-value		0.62	<0.001		0.32	<0.001		0.91	0.01		0.02	<0.001

Note.

^aReference group = some college or post graduate education.

^bReference group = no family members with diabetes residing in the household.

^§P < 0.10.

^*P < 0.05.

^**P < 0.001.