Key result
Diabetes is linked to markedly poorer self-rated health and moderates the age-SRH association.
Why the study?
There is growing interest in using self-rated health to track health status and service needs in diabetes, prompting investigation into how diabetes affects self-rated health and moderates its link with age.
Does diabetes affect self-rated health and moderate the association between age and self-rated health?
Observational (n=47,507)
Does diabetes affect self-rated health and moderate the association between age and self-rated health?
Effect estimate: Cohen's d -0.85 (95% CI -0.92, -0.85)
p-value: p=<0.001
People with diabetes have significantly poorer self-rated health compared to those without, and age is less strongly associated with self-rated health in diabetic individuals.
Diabetes linked to poorer SRH with age moderation; hypothesis-generating for longitudinal outcomes and interventions.
Diabetes is a severe chronic condition that is related to decreased physical functioning. Recently, there has been growing interest in understanding how a brief report on health such as self-rated health (SRH) could be used to track changes in health status and service needs in people with diabetes. The current research aims to investigate how SRH is affected by diabetes and how diabetes could moderate the association between age and SRH. By analyzing data from 47,507 participants, with 2869 of them clinically diagnosed with diabetes, the current study found that people with diabetes had significantly poorer SRH than people without diabetes after controlling for demographic covariates (t(2868) = −45.73, p < 0.001, 95% C.I. (−0.92, −0.85), Cohen’s d = −0.85). In addition, diabetes was a significant moderator of the relationship between age and SRH (b = 0.01, p < 0.001, 95% C.I. (0.01, 0.01)). Specifically, age was more strongly related to SRH in people without diabetes (b = −0.015, p < 0.001, 95% C.I. (−0.016, −0.015)) than in people with diabetes (b = −0.007, p < 0.001, 95% C.I. (−0.010, −0.004)). Health professionals should aim to improve SRH in people with diabetes given that SRH is related to various outcomes.
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Kang et al. (2023) conducted an observational in Diabetes (n=47,507). Diabetes vs. No diabetes was evaluated on Self-rated health (SRH) (Cohen's d -0.85, 95% CI -0.92, -0.85, p=<0.001). People with diabetes had significantly poorer self-rated health than those without diabetes (Cohen’s d = -0.85; 95% CI -0.92 to -0.85; p<0.001), and diabetes moderated the age-SRH association.
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