The Common Sense Model of Diabetes Inventory (CSMDI)
| Domain* | Item# | Description |
|---|---|---|
| S | 1† | Feeling nervous is a sign of low blood sugar. |
| S | 2 | Blood sugar will go up if you eat too many white foods. |
| S | 3† | People with diabetes have tingling in their feet due to high blood sugar. |
| S | 4 | Falling down is a sign of diabetes. |
| S | 5† | Having to go to the bathroom often at night is caused by diabetes. |
| S | 6† | Diabetes makes people feel thirsty all the time. |
| I | 7 | Family members with diabetes are good sources of diabetes information. |
| I | 8 | People with diabetes understand their disease better than their doctors. |
| I | 9 | People could better control their diabetes if they were given the right information. |
| C | 10 | Weight does not cause diabetes because thin people also get diabetes. |
| C | 11 | Diabetes can’t be hereditary because not everyone in a family gets it. |
| C | 12 | Some people get diabetes because they ate too many sweets when they were young. |
| C | 13 | Everyone is born with diabetes but it develops at different times for different people. |
| C | 14† | Being overweight makes people get diabetes. |
| C | 15† | Diabetes runs in families. |
| Co | 16† | Diabetes causes high blood pressure. |
| Co** | It is difficult for people with diabetes when they have a full-time job. | |
| Co** | Diabetes has serious financial consequences. | |
| Co | 17† | Diabetes makes it difficult for your body to fight infection. |
| BM | 18 | Drinking lots of water helps to flush extra sugar out of the body. |
| BM | 19† | Stress makes your blood sugar go up. |
| BM | 20† | Managing the size of each meal helps control diabetes. |
| BM | 21 | The only thing people with diabetes need to know is to stay away from sweets. |
| BM | 22t | Doing household chores is enough exercise for someone who has diabetes. |
| BM | 23† | The body processes sugar in fruits and vegetables differently than sugar in sweets and starches. |
| BM | 24 | Blood sugar often goes up and down for no reason. |
| MM | 25 | Taking extra medication helps to manage high blood sugar. |
| MM | 26 | People should adjust their diabetes medication depending on how they feel. |
| MM | 27 | Low blood sugar can be managed by adjusting medication. |
| MM | 28 | Medical treatment cures diabetes. |
| MM | 29 | Taking extra medication makes it okay to eat something sweet. |
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S=Symptoms, I=Information, C=Causes, Co=Consequences, BM=Behavioral Management, MM=Medical Management,
†
=Congruent with the Biomedical Model;
**
Removed from the current analysis.