Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of 429 patients with type 2 DM, Al-Najaf Governorate, Iraq, 2022
From: Stigma perception and determinants among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Iraq
Variables | Mean | SD |
Age (years) (33–84 years old) | 56.56 | 11.59 |
N | % | |
Age | ||
Up to 50 years old | 148 | 34.5 |
Above 50 years | 281 | 65.5 |
Gender | ||
Men | 265 | 61.8 |
Women | 164 | 38.2 |
Marital status | ||
Married | 245 | 57.1 |
Single | 69 | 16.1 |
Divorced or widow | 115 | 26.8 |
Educational level | ||
No formal education and primary school | 145 | 33.8 |
Intermediate and secondary school | 116 | 27.0 |
College and higher education | 168 | 39.2 |
Job | ||
Full time | 238 | 55.4 |
Free employee | 71 | 16.6 |
Not employed or housewife | 120 | 28.0 |
Place of living | ||
City center | 232 | 54.1 |
District and subdistrict | 140 | 32.6 |
Village or city side | 57 | 13.3 |
Living conditions | ||
With family | 356 | 83.0 |
Alone | 73 | 17.0 |
Patient’s opinion about his income | ||
Low | 32 | 7.5 |
Middle | 269 | 62.7 |
Good | 128 | 29.8 |