Assessing Diabetes Self-Management with the Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ) Can Help Analyse Behavioural Problems Related to Reduced Glycaemic Control.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To appraise the Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ)'s measurement of diabetes self-management as a statistical predictor of glycaemic control relative to the widely used SDSCA.

Methods

248 patients with type 1 diabetes and 182 patients with type 2 diabetes were cross-sectionally assessed using the two self-report measures of diabetes self-management DSMQ and SDSCA; the scales were used as competing predictors of HbA1c. We developed a structural equation model of self-management as measured by the DSMQ and analysed the amount of variation explained in HbA1c; an analogue model was developed for the SDSCA.

Results

The structural equation models of self-management and glycaemic control showed very good fit to the data. The DSMQ's measurement of self-manageme

SUBMITTER: Schmitt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4777391 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature