Awareness regarding risk factors of type 2 diabetes among individuals attending a tertiary-care hospital in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Bivariate associations of all variables with knowledge and attitude score

Variables	Association with knowledge score		Association with attitude score
Variables	Correlation coefficient	P value	Correlation coefficient	P value
Age, years, mean ± SD	0.092	0.067*	0.029	0.56*
Monthly income , $, median (range)	0.263	0.0001^†	0.28	0.0001^†
BMI, kg/m², mean ± SD	0.15	0.003*	0.09	0.07*
Knowledge score, mean ± SD	-	-	0.51	0.0001*
Attitude score, mean ± SD	0.51	0.0001*	-	-
	Knowledge score mean ± SD		Attitude score mean ± SD
Gender
Male	6.27 ± 2.32	0.0001^‡	23.57 ± 2.87	0.0001^‡
Female	5.14 ± 2.45	0.0001^‡	22.41 ± 2.88	0.0001^‡
Education
Illiterate	4.06 ± 2.36	0.0001^‡	21.17 ± 2.59	0.0001^‡
Primary to 8^th grade	4.70 ± 2.14		22.37 ± 2.87
Secondary-higher secondary	6.14 ± 2.20		23.45 ± 2.66
Graduate & above	7.14 ± 2.05		24.18 ± 2.96
Occupation
Service	6.74 ± 2.33	0.0001^§	23.72 ± 2.99	0.0001^§
Business	6.10 ± 2.02		23.79 ± 2.40
Housewife	5.0 ± 2.45		22.17 ± 2.86
Unemployed	5.17 ± 2.42		23.20 ± 3.14
Family history of diabetes
Have family history	6.19 ± 2.33	0.0001^‡	23 ± 3.04	0.79^‡
No family history	5.06 ± 2.45	0.0001^‡	23.1 ± 2.74	0.79^‡
Acquisition of information regarding diabetes
Received information	5.79 ± 2.44	0.001^‡	23.09 ± 2.98	0.0001^‡
Not received information	4.51 ± 2.30	0.001^‡	21.59 ± 2.14	0.0001^‡
BMI (kg/m ² )
Underweight (<18.5)	4.0 ± 2.61	0.007^§	20.76 ± 3.03	0.035^§
Normal (18.5-22.9)	5.37 ± 2.28		22.89 ± 2.79
Overweight (23–27.5)	5.70 ± 2.56		22.92 ± 3.16
Obese (>27.5)	6.24 ± 2.32		23.33 ± 2.47

BMI = Body Mass Index.
^*Pearson correlation was used for analysis of continuous, normally distributed variables.
^†Spearman correlation was used for analysis of continuous, non-normally distributed variables.
^‡Student t test was used to compare mean across normally distributed variables with 2 categories.
^§One-way ANOVA was used to compare mean and median scores and values across categorical variables with more than 2 categories.

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