Table 6.
Factors influencing self-care practices among the study participants:
| Factor | Scores n (%) | Chi sq | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Average | good | |||
| Random blood sugar (mg/dL) | |||||
| >180 | 25 (26.6) | 60 (63.8) | 9 (9.6) | 40.484 | 0.0001 |
| <180 | 106 (67.9) | 45 (28.8) | 5 (3.2) | ||
| Education | |||||
| Illiterate | 34 (60.7) | 20 (35.7) | 2 (3.6) | 28.844 | 0.004 |
| Primary | 26 (51) | 22 (43.1) | 3 (5.9) | ||
| Middle school | 25 (54.3) | 20 (43.5) | 1 (2.2) | ||
| High school | 36 (55.4) | 25 (38.5) | 4 (6.2) | ||
| Higher secondary/diploma | 8 (50) | 4 (25) | 4 (25) | ||
| Graduation | 2 (15.4) | 11 (84.6) | 0 (0) | ||
| Post graduation | 0 (0) | 3 (100) | 0 (0) | ||
| Occupation | |||||
| Unemployed | 68 (60.2) | 42 (37.2) | 3 (2.7) | 25.569 | 0.04 |
| Unskilled | 26 (50) | 22 (42.3) | 4 (7.7) | ||
| Semiskilled | 17 (45.9) | 19 (51.4) | 1 (2.7) | ||
| Skilled | 20 (51.3) | 13 (33.3) | 6 (15.4) | ||
| Clerical | 0 (0) | 7 (100) | 0 (0) | ||
| Executive/professional | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | ||