Table 2.

Diabetes status and control among children with T1DM attending two secondary care hospitals, Khartoum State, Sudan.

Variables		Frequency	Percentage
Time of diagnosis	Before joining school	36	29.5
	After joining school	86	70.5
Insulin administration	By parents only	14	11.5
	By the child alone	82	67.2
	By the child with adult supervision	26	21.3
Glucometer device	Present	99	81.1
	Absent	23	18.9
Reasons for not using glucometers	Expensive	21	91.3
	Not available	1	4.3
	Not important	1	4.3
	Regular monitoring (as advised by the doctor)	62	50.8
Blood glucose monitoring	Irregular monitoring (according to their convenience)	36	29.5
	Not monitoring at all	24	19.7
Recording blood glucose measurement	Yes	82	67.2
	No	40	32.8
Exercising	Regular exercising (have a clear planned program)	67	54.9
	Irregular exercising (according to their convenience)	31	25.4
	Not exercising	24	19.7
Diet choice	Special diet	52	42.6
	Normal diet	70	57.4
Visiting doctors regularly	Yes	112	91.8
	No	10	8.2
Difficulties with treatment	High prices of medications	38	31
	High prices of doctor visits	10	8
	Unavailability of medications	29	24
	Unavailability of glucometer strips	33	27
	Others	12	10
History of previous hospital admission	Admitted	113	92.6
	Not admitted	9	7.4
HbA1C level within the last 3 months	More than 9.5%	77	63.1
	9.5% or less	45	36.9
Presence of complications	Present	58	47.5
	Absent	64	52.5