Table 3 Description of class characteristics compared to the other classes.

Selected characteristics	Typical person in….
Selected characteristics	Class 1-Low users	Class 2-low users with ophthalmologist visits	Class 3-high users	Class 4-high users with mental healthcare
Age (years)	Younger	Older	Older	Younger
Sex (female)	Male	Female	Male	Female
Type of diabetes	Less than 90% T2DM	More than 90% T2DM	More than 90% T2DM	Less than 90% T2DM
Diabetes duration	Shorter duration	Longer duration	Longer duration	Shoter duration
aDCSI^#	Low	Low	High	High
DMP Member	Less	More	More	Less
Diabetes training	Less	More	More	Less
PCS12*	High	High	Low	Low
MCS12*	High	High	Low	Low
Depression	No	No	Yes	Yes

Significant results (Table 2) are marked in italics; the results were extracted from the LCA main analysis (Table 2 and Online Appendix Table 2).
^#low aDCSI referring to a low severity of diabetes complications.
*high PCS12 or MCS12 referring to high self-reported quality of life.

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