Table 3.

Attitude and Practice Towards Diabetes Among Participants

Characteristics	Male		Female		Total		p-value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Attitude towards diabetes
Diabetes affects almost every part of a diabetic persons’ life	70	100.0	106	100.0	176	100.0
Supporting from family and friends are important in dealing with diabetes	70	100.0	106	100.0	176	100.0
Costs for diabetic treatment are expensive	69	98.6	106	100.0	175	99.4	0.40
Missing medicines has bad effects on health	69	98.6	103	97.2	172	97.7	0.48
Keeping the blood sugar close to normal can help to prevent the diabetic complications	68	97.1	103	97.2	171	97.2	0.66
Patients with diabetes should not follow controlled diet	65	92.9	99	93.4	164	93.2	0.56
Patients with diabetes need regular health check	66	94.3	98	92.5	164	93.2	0.77
Patients with diabetes should exercise regularly	65	92.9	96	90.6	161	91.5	0.59
It is important to control weight in diabetic patients	63	90.0	96	90.6	159	90.3	0.90
Practice in diabetic treatment and prevention
Actively seek or request medical services to have periodically blood lipid testing	69	98.6	106	100.0	175	99.4	0.40
Have you stopped smoking since finding out that you have diabetes?	51	72.9	105	99.1	156	88.6	<0.01
Change diet after diagnosis	54	77.1	90	84.9	144	81.8	0.19
Forgot to use medicine	53	75.7	88	83.0	141	80.1	0.24
Regularly exercise	56	80.0	73	68.9	129	73.3	0.10
Eyes checking in the last 1 year	53	75.7	73	68.9	126	71.6	0.32
Daily blood pressure checking	31	44.3	43	40.6	74	42.1	0.63
Daily blood glucose checking	8	11.4	7	6.6	15	8.5	0.26
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-value
Attitude score (band score: 0 −100)	96	13.0	95.7	13.1	95.8	13.0	0.67
Practice score (band score: 0 −100)	67	18.4	67	15.7	68.1	16.8	0.59