Self-care activities mediate self-perceived burden and depression in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes

Table 3 Self-care behaviors’ mediating role on self-perceived burden and depression

Participants	Variable	Path c		Path c’ and b		Path a		Path a × b
		B	SE	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE	LLCI	ULCI
Total	Self-perceived burden	0.276a	0.020	0.265a	0.021	-0.281a	0.068	0.020a	0.008	0.007	0.036
	Self-care behaviors	-	-	-0.041a	0.012	-	-
R2	-	0.249	-	0.236	-	0.028	-	-	-	-	-
F	-	98.948	-	183.852	-	17.253	-	-	-	-	-

^aP < 0.01.

LLCI: Lower-level confidence interval; ULCI: Upper-level confidence interval.