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The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 4 Associations between footcare belief and self-reported footcare practice (n = 87)

From: Beliefs and self-reported practice of footcare among persons with type II diabetes mellitus attending selected health centres in east Trinidad

 

Self-reported practice of performing footcare

Self-reported practice of overcoming barriers to performing footcare

Belief regarding susceptibility to a foot injury

Pearson correlation

Sig. (2-tailed)

.381**

.000

− .122

.259

Belief regarding the seriousness of complications

Pearson correlation

Sig. (2-tailed)

.282**

.008

.251*

.019

  1. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
  2. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
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