PMID- 30402382
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220330
IS  - 2210-9099 (Print)
IS  - 2233-6052 (Electronic)
IS  - 2210-9099 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 5
DP  - 2018 Oct
TI  - Public Awareness of Early and Late Complications of Type 2 Diabetes - Application 
      of Latent Profile Analysis in Determining Questionnaire Cut-Off Points.
PG  - 261-268
LID - 10.24171/j.phrp.2018.9.5.08 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: A questionnaire was designed to determine public understanding of 
      early and late complications of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS: A 
      cross-sectional study was performed in participants who were selected using a 
      multi-stage sampling method and a standard questionnaire of 67 questions was 
      proposed. An expert panel selected 53 closed-ended questions for content validity 
      to be included in the questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was 
      tested using Cronbach's alpha coefficient giving a score of 0.84. RESULTS: Of the 
      825 participants, 443 (57.6%) were male, and 322 (41.87%) were 40 years or more. 
      The proportion of low-, moderate- and high- awareness about T2DM and its 
      complications was 29.26%, 62.68%, and 8.06%, respectively. Friends (56.31%) and 
      internet and social networks (20.55%) were the 2 major sources of awareness, 
      respectively. The medical staff (e.g., physicians) had the lowest share in the 
      level of public awareness (3.64%) compared to other sources. CONCLUSION: These 
      results present data that shows the general population awareness of T2DM is low. 
      Healthcare policymakers need to be effective at raising awarenes of diabetes and 
      it should be through improved education.
FAU - Shirmohammadi, Nasrin
AU  - Shirmohammadi N
AD  - Modeling of noncommunicable diseases Research Center, School of Public Health, 
      Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
FAU - Soltanian, Ali Reza
AU  - Soltanian AR
AD  - Department of Biostatistics, Modeling of noncommunicable diseases Research 
      Center, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, 
      Iran.
FAU - Borzouei, Shiva
AU  - Borzouei S
AD  - Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of 
      Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Korea (South)
TA  - Osong Public Health Res Perspect
JT  - Osong public health and research perspectives
JID - 101563309
PMC - PMC6202015
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Type 2 diabetes
OT  - awareness
OT  - questionnaire
OT  - statistical model
COIS- Conflicts of Interest The authors have declared that they have no competing 
      interests.
EDAT- 2018/11/08 06:00
MHDA- 2018/11/08 06:01
PMCR- 2018/10/01
CRDT- 2018/11/08 06:00
PHST- 2018/11/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/11/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/11/08 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ophrp-09-0261 [pii]
AID - 10.24171/j.phrp.2018.9.5.08 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2018 Oct;9(5):261-268. doi: 
      10.24171/j.phrp.2018.9.5.08.