Table 3.
Diabetes distress score among patients with or without complications and insulin treatment are assess as a measure to see scale’s discrimination capacity (n = 1184).
| Complication of diabetes | On insulin treatment | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | p value* | No | Yes | p value* | |
| Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | |||
| Total score | 2.16 (0.71) | 2.53 (0.81) | < 0.001 | 2.22 (0.76) | 2.48 (0.79) | < 0.001 |
| Regimen-related distress domain | 3.14 (1.40) | 3.54 (1.30) | < 0.001 | 3.23 (1.43) | 3.46 (1.27) | 0.004 |
| Emotional burden domain | 2.28 (1.20) | 2.84 (1.34) | < 0.001 | 2.30 (1.20) | 2.87 (1.35) | < 0.001 |
| Physician-related distress domain | 1.20 (0.53) | 1.35 (0.65) | < 0.001 | 1.23 (0.57) | 1.32 (0.63) | 0.012 |
| Interpersonal distress domain | 1.57 (1.04) | 1.90 (1.20) | < 0.001 | 1.71 (1.18) | 1.76 (1.07) | 0.453 |
*p values are generated using independent t test.