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Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2013 Dec 23;33(7):597–607. doi: 10.1037/hea0000043

Table 3.

Regression Model Building Assessing Factors Related to the Diabetes Self-Care Activities of Blood Glucose Self-testing, Foot Care and Smoking: African Americans

	Blood Glucose Self-Testing (n=133)			Foot Care (n=133)			Smoking (n=133)
Variable	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3
Patient-related attributes
Age	0.002	0.001	−0.004	−0.0002	0.002	−0.004	−0.016	−0.028	−0.028
Gender (Female)	0.184^§	0.203^*	0.225^*	0.110	0.107	0.112	−0.742^§	−0.701^§	−0.686
Education^a
Less than HS	0.234^*	0.188^§	0.248^*	0.133	0.039	0.101	0.289	0.093	0.093
HS Graduate/GED	0.141	0.079	0.095	0.187^§	0.110	0.176	0.181	0.021	−0.072
Health insurance status (No Insurance)	−0.095	−0.098	−0.103	−0.011	−0.501	−0.057	−0.048	−0.067	−0.084
Biomedical/Disease-related Factors
Body mass index		−0.008	−0.009		−0.004	−0.002		−0.081^*	−0.087^*
Glycemic control (A1c)		−0.002	−0.001		−0.016	−0.161		0.007	0.005
Household members with diabetes^b
One person		−0.093	−0.067		−0.028	−0.054		0.473	0.565
More than one person		−0.160	−0.090		0.126	0.154		1.142^§	1.195^§
Insulin Use (no insulin use)		−0.087	−0.144		−0.285^*	−0.323^**		0.086	0.098
Psychosocial Constructs
Diabetes distress			−0.163^**			−0.104^*			−0.024
Diabetes-related psychosocial self-efficacy			0.050			0.198^*			−0.357
r²	0.09	0.12	0.22	0.04	0.12	0.24	0.03	0.09	0.10
Goodness-of-fit test—Chi-Square, df		3.53, 4	17.52, 2		12.30, 4	18.62, 2		8.87, 4	1.18, 2
P-value		0.47	<0.001		0.02	<0.001		0.99	0.55

Note.

Reference group = some college or post graduate education.

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

^§

P < 0.10.

P < 0.05.

^**

P < 0.001.