A cross-sectional survey of self-perceived health status and metabolic control values in patients with type 2 diabetes

Prevalence, Awareness, Control, and Treatment of Hypertension and Diabetes in Korean Cancer Survivors: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Fourth and Fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys

“…The general population who self-perceived their health as poor reported more diabetes (Barreto et al, 2009). However, this result was not consistent with previous data to general population (Kartal et al, 2011). This study didn't reveal the relationship between treatment of diabetes and who self-perceived their health in cancer survivors.…”

Misperception among rural diabetic residents: a cross‐sectional descriptive study

“…Furthermore, 36 people reported that they did not receive any treatment. This is comparable to results found in Turkey; Kartal and Inci (2011) stated that 24·5% of the participants had good metabolic control and 68% of participants who had high HbA 1 C levels considered their health to be good.…”

On measurements and their quality: Paper 3: Post hoc pooling and errors of discreteness

“…(Alexopoulos and Geitona, 2009), or ''How do you rate your state of health in general?'' (Kartal and Inci, 2011). The longstanding use of this approach may be due to its ease of use and because early on Wannamethee and Shaper (1991) described this type of measure as a good overall indicator of health status, comprising the perception of symptoms, diagnoses and health behaviors.…”

“…Individuals typically answer these questions by selecting a response from response-option sets including: extremely good, good, average, bad, extremely bad, (Kaplan et al, 1996), very good, good, moderate, poor, very poor, (Alexopoulos and Geitona, 2009), very good, good, satisfactory, less than good, poor, (Eller et al, 2008), or, very good, good, fair, bad, (Kartal and Inci, 2011). The effects of such subtle variations in question wording and in the verbal anchors chosen for response options will be addressed in a subsequent paper in this series.…”

“…Kartal and Inci (2011) examined the relationship between self-reported health status and metabolic control among patients with type 2 diabetes reporting ''There was found to be a statistically significant difference between selfperceived health and levels of HbA1C; 68% of participants who had high HbA1C values evaluated their health as good, whereas 63.9% of those who had poor HbA1C values evaluated their health as bad'' (p. 227). In their analysis the authors combined 10 ''bad'' responses with 41 ''fair'' responses to form a category they labeled ''poor'' and combined 17 ''very good'' responses with 42 ''good'' responses to form a category they labeled ''good'' (see their Table 3).…”