Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the study participants
A total of 216 type II patients participated in the study. The majority of study participants in both groups were male, 60 (55.6%) and 56 (51.9%), being married, 71 (65.7%) and 99 (91.7%), and aged 48 to 63 years, respectively. Most of the study participants in both groups worked as farmers. Of the 216 patients, 57 (52.8%) in the intervention group and 55 (50.9%) in the control group were from rural areas. Moreover, 74 (68.5%) of the participants in the intervention group and 45 (41.7%) participants in the control group had no formal education (Fig. Flow of participants in the studyIn both groups, 63 (58.3%) in the intervention group and 30 (27.8%) in the control group had comorbidities. The mean duration since diagnosis of DM was 5.14 ± 3.5 years and 4.19 ± 2.4 years in intervention and control groups, respectively (Table Baseline socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients in the North Shao zone, 2021