Table 1 Characteristics of demographic variables.
Variables | Data (n = 300) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
n | % | ||
Sex | Men | 177 | 59 |
Women | 123 | 41 | |
Marital status | Married | 272 | 91 |
Single | 27 | 9 | |
Education status | Illiterate | 31 | 10.4 |
Elementary | 58 | 19.4 | |
Middle school | 53 | 17.7 | |
Diploma | 82 | 27.4 | |
Academic degree | 75 | 25.1 | |
Employment status | Housewife | 102 | 34.3 |
Employed | 111 | 37.4 | |
Self-employed | 84 | 28.3 | |
Habitation status | Urban | 200 | 66.6 |
Rural | 100 | 33.4 | |
See diabetic foot complications in others | Yes | 157 | 52.5 |
No | 142 | 47.5 | |
A history of having a diabetic person in the family | Yes | 172 | 57.9 |
No | 125 | 42.1 | |
Age of onset of diabetes | ≤ 40 | 60 | 20 |
> 40 | 240 | 80 | |
Diabetes duration | ≤ 5 | 107 | 35.8 |
6–10 | 81 | 27.1 | |
> 10 | 111 | 37.1 | |
