Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics, clinical conditions and participants’ preferences
| Variables | Overall (n = 198) |
|---|---|
| n (%) | |
| Sociodemographic characteristics | |
| Mean age (year) ± SD | 59.90 ± 11.06 |
| Age* | |
| Less than 56 | 70 (35) |
| More than 56 | 128 (65) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 84 (43) |
| Female | 114 (57) |
| Education level | |
| None | 3 (2) |
| Primary school | 33 (16) |
| Junior high school | 42 (21) |
| Senior high school | 83 (42) |
| University degree | 37 (19) |
| Occupation | |
| Employed | 64 (32) |
| Retired | 53 (27) |
| Housewife | 80 (41) |
| Caregiver | |
| No | 125 (63) |
| Yes | 73 (37) |
| Clinical conditions | |
| Type of therapy | |
| Diet or no OAD or insulin in the R/** | 20 (10) |
| OAD (mono and combinations) | 143 (72) |
| Insulin (mono and OAD combinations) | 35 (12) |
| Complications and comorbidities | |
| None | 74 (38) |
| Yes | 103 (52) |
| Comorbiditiesa | 14 (7) |
| Complications and comorbiditiesb | 7 (3) |
| Types of complications | |
| No | 74 (38) |
| Microvascular | 18 (9) |
| Macrovascular | 78 (40) |
| Micro & macrovascular | 7 (3) |
| Number of T2DM complications | |
| No | 74 (38) |
| One complication | 76 (39) |
| Two or more | 27 (13) |
*We choose 56 years as the cut-off point because that is the pension age in Indonesia
aParticipants were defined as having comorbidities if they suffered from other diseases (not T2DM complications)
bParticipants were defined as having complication and comorbidities if they suffered from other diseases and T2DM complications