Table 1.
Baseline global measures.
| Construct | Assessment | Description | |||
| Background variables | |||||
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N/Aa | Demographic questionnaire | Gender, ethnicity, education, income, health care coverage, marital status, employment status | ||
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N/A | Clinical information | Recent severe high/low blood glucose events, method of insulin delivery, pump/injections/continuous glucose monitor use, diagnoses, height and weight | ||
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Personality | 10-item personality inventory [17] | 10 items, measures personality along 5 dimensions | ||
| Diabetes management | |||||
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Self-management | Diabetes self-management questionnaire [18] |
16 items, higher scores indicate more desirable self-management behavior | ||
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Insulin self-management | Insulin self-management | 3 items, inspired by medication adherence items [19], also administered at follow-up | ||
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Diabetes self-care | Self-Care Inventory-Revised [20] | 9 items, higher scores signal increased levels of diabetes self-care, 4 subscales | ||
| Emotional well-being | |||||
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Fear of hypoglycemia | Hypoglycemic attitudes and behavior scale [21] |
14 items, higher scores indicate more fear of hypoglycemia | ||
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Anxiety | Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment [22] | 7 items, higher scores indicate increased severity of anxiety | ||
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Diabetes stigma | Type 1 Diabetes Stigma Assessment Scale [23] |
8 items, higher scores indicate more diabetes stigma experienced, 3 subscales | ||
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Emotional regulation | Difficulties in emotion regulation scale [24] | 18 items, higher scores reflect greater difficulty with emotion regulation | ||
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Depressive symptoms | Patient health questionnaire [25] | 8 items, higher scores reflect greater depression symptoms severity | ||
| Other | |||||
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Occupational balance | Occupational balance questionnaire [26] |
11 items, higher scores indicate a higher level of lifestyle balance | ||
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Social support | Social support questionnaire [27] | 12 items, higher scores signal greater satisfaction with social support system | ||
aN/A: not applicable.