From: Assessment of psychosocial variables by parents of youth with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Variable | Â |
Age, years | 38.6 ± 7.6 |
Gender, Female n (%) | 964 (89.3%) |
Ethnicity, n (%) | Â |
Caucasian | 566 (52.5%) |
Non-Caucasian* | 513 (47.5%) |
Economic status | Â |
High | 72 (6.7%) |
Medium | 225 (20.9%) |
Low | 327 (30.3%) |
Very low | 455 (42.2%) |
Geographic region (%) | Â |
Southeast | 346 (32.1%) |
North/northeast | 422 (39.1%) |
South | 250 (23.2%) |
Mid-west | 61 (5.7%) |