Persons with Diabetes’ Perceptions of Family Burden and Associated Factors

Table 4

Ordinal logistic regression of persons with diabetes’ perceptions of family burden and associated factors at a university hospital.

Variables	B	Sig.	AOR	95% CI
				Lower	Upper
Occupation
Unemployed	1.690	0.030	5.419	1.181	24.872
Housewife	0.631	0.450	1.879	0.366	9.655
Merchant	0.850	0.255	2.339	0.541	10.112
Farmer	1.046	0.138	2.847	0.715	11.330
Student	1.610	0.065	5.003	0.903	27.708
Daily labor	1.855	0.083	6.391	0.785	52.037
Government employee	0^a	.	1	.	.
Living situation
Living alone	-2.211	0.016	0.110	0.018	0.659
Only with partner	-0.629	0.316	0.533	0.156	1.824
With partner and family	-1.685	0.002	0.185	0.064	0.535
With family and other partners	0^a	.	1	.	.
Comorbidity
Hypertension	0.740	0.480	2.095	0.269	16.309
Heart disease	0.461	0.686	1.585	0.170	14.789
Arthritis	2.132	0.075	8.428	0.805	88.276
Osteoarthritis	-1.503	0.342	0.222	0.010	4.943
Kidney impairment	0.830	0.471	2.294	0.240	21.895
Hypertension and heart disease	1.884	0.094	6.580	0.728	59.480
Heart disease and kidney disease	1.763	0.131	5.828	0.592	57.382
Hypertension, heart, and kidney disease	3.143	0.018	23.175	1.705	315.088
Other	0^a	.	1	.	.
Current treatment
Oral diabetic agent	-0.967	0.006	0.380	0.191	0.758
Insulin	0.539	0.211	1.715	0.737	3.988
Oral and insulin	0^a	.	1	.	.
Hospital admission
Never admitted	-3.113	0.017	0.044	0.003	0.571
One time admitted	-1.098	0.333	0.334	0.036	3.073
Two times admitted	-1.239	0.267	0.290	0.032	2.587
Three times admitted	-0.664	0.557	0.515	0.056	4.716
Four times admitted	-1.341	0.251	0.262	0.027	2.577
Five times admitted	-1.011	0.422	0.364	0.031	4.281
Six times admitted	-0.520	0.736	0.594	0.029	12.294
Seven times admitted	0.940	0.599	2.560	0.077	85.519
Eight times admitted	0^a	.	1	.	.

^a: constant.