Effect of diabetes self-management education program on glycemic control in diabetic patients attending the family medicine outpatient clinic, Suez Canal University Hospital, Ismailia, Egypt

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 3 Multivariable linear regression analysis of determinants of patients’ HbA1c levels

Predictors	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients, beta	95% CI	p value
Predictors	B	Std. error	Standardized coefficients, beta	95% CI	p value
Constant	9.227	0.631			< 0.001*
Chronic illness
Yes vs no (R)	0.267	0.249	0.129	− 0.226 to 0.759	0.286
Medical treatment for other diseases
Yes vs no (R)	− 0.012	0.227	− 0.007	− 0.462 to 0.437	0.957
Herbals usage
Yes vs no (R)	1.694	0.592	0.249	0.521 to 2.867	0.005*
Total SDSCA post	− 0.041	0.016	− 0.243	− 0.073 to − 0.009	0.014*