Table 3.

Malnutrition, depressive symptoms and diabetes self-care behaviours of the participants by different frailty statuses

Variables	Possible range	Actual range	Total (n=291)	Robust (n=85)	Pre-frail (n=150)	Frail (n=56)	P value
			N (%)/median (IQR)
Malnutrition risk/malnutrition							<0.001
No			189 (64.9)	76 (89.4)	96 (64.0)	17 (30.4)
Yes			102 (35.1)	9 (10.6)	54 (36.0)	39 (69.6)
GDS-15 score	0–15	0–15	3 (1–5)	1 (0–3)	3 (1–5)	5 (4–8)	<0.001
SDSCA score
General diet score	0–14	0–14	14 (10–14)	14 (10–14)	14 (10–14)	14 (10–14)	0.465
Specific diet score	0–14	0–14	8 (7–12)	10 (7–13)	7 (7–12)	7 (7–12)	0.131
Exercise score	0–14	0–14	7 (7–14)	14 (7–14)	7 (7–14)	7 (0–7)	<0.001
Blood-glucose testing score	0–14	0–14	0 (0–2)	0 (0–2)	0 (0–2)	0 (0–1)	0.183
Foot care score	0–14	0–14	0 (0–7)	0 (0–7)	0 (0–7)	0 (0–0)	0.007
Medication care score	0–7	0–7	7 (7–7)	7 (7–7)	7 (7–7)	7 (7–7)	0.060

Italic values indicate P<0.1.

GDS-15, geriatric depression scale-15; SDSCA, summary of diabetes self-care activities.