Table 4.

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

	Total Self-care Score (n = 117)			General Diet (n=117)			Specific Diet (n=117)			Physical Activity (n=117)
Variable	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3
Patient-related attributes
Age	0.002	0.0004	0.0003	0.001	−0.001	−0.001	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001	−0.007	−0.007
Gender (Female)	0.032	0.058	0.039	−0.154	−0.112	−0.129	0.020	0.054	0.050	−0.149	−0.034	−0.086
Educationa
Less than HS	0.184	0.163	0.130	−0.022	−0.052	−0.113	0.551*	0.502*	0.502*	−0.120	−0.084	−0.153
HS Graduate/GED	0.179	0.173	0.158	−0.424	−0.277	−0.317	0.473§	0.378	0.385	0.034	0.066	0.007
Health insurance status (No Insurance)	−0.050	−0.045	−0.079	−0.015	−0.027	−0.076	0.046	0.053	0.043	−0.136	−0.160	−0.234§
Biomedical/Disease-related Factors
Body mass index		−0.010	−0.007		−0.023*	−0.019§		−0.008	−0.007		−0.030*	−0.025*
Glycemic control (A1c)		−0.007	−0.001		0.021	0.031		0.011	0.013		−0.087*	−0.081§
Household members with diabetesb
One person		−0.048	−0.053		0.293§	0.275§		−0.205	−0.212§		−0.460*	−0.475*
More than one person		0.071	0.043		0.330§	0.283§		−0.167	−0.181		−0.097	−0.147
Insulin Use (no insulin use)		−0.105	−0.094		0.069	0.077		−0.078	−0.075		−0.204	−0.184
Psychosocial Constructs
Diabetes distress			−0.075§			−0.116*			−0.015			−0.131*
Diabetes-related psychosocial self-efficacy			0.092			0.114			0.068			0.114
r2	0.01	0.04	0.08	0.05	0.13	0.20	0.08	0.12	0.13	0.03	0.21	0.26
Goodness-of-fit test—Chi-Square, df		1.54, 4	2.41, 2		10.42, 4	10.39, 2		5.16, 2	1.03, 2		24.69, 4	7.71, 2
P-value		0.55	0.09		0.03	0.005		0.27	0.60		<0.001	0.02

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.