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The relationship between potential categories of self-management behavior and disease knowledge level of gout patients based on K-means clustering analysis.

  • Zuoyun Ma1
  • Xia Pan2
  • Tianwang Li2
  • Yali Wang2
  • Chun Zheng2
  • Li Tang1,3
  1. 1School of Nursing, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
  2. 2Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
  3. 3Department of Nursing, The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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Abstract

Objective

To explore the potential categories of self-management behaviors of gout patients, analyze the relationship between each category and the disease knowledge level, and provide a basis for formulating targeted intervention strategies.Methods

A total of 402 patients with gout were selected by convenience sampling. The general information questionnaire, the gout patients' self-management assessment scale, and the knowledge level measurement questionnaire were used in this study. K-means cluster analysis was used to identify the potential categories of self-management behavior.Results

The score of self-management behavior of gout patients was (142.30 ± 29.53), which could be divided into four categories: high self-management-knowledge adequacy type (28.6%), low self-management-knowledge deficiency type (15.4%), moderate self-management-insufficient transformation type (30.8%), and good self-management-knowledge deficiency type (25.1%). There were statistically significant differences in age, residence, number of acute flares in the past year, serum uric acid (SUA) level and disease knowledge level among different categories (p < 0.05).Conclusion

There is heterogeneity in self-management behavior of gout patients, and there are differences in disease knowledge level among different types of patients. Medical staff should implement hierarchical and precise intervention based on category characteristics.

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@article{ma2026relationship,
  title = {{The relationship between potential categories of self-management behavior and disease knowledge level of gout patients based on K-means clustering analysis.}},
  author = {Zuoyun Ma and Xia Pan and Tianwang Li and Yali Wang and Chun Zheng and Li Tang},
  journal = {Frontiers in psychology},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1951213},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42921309},
  note = {CC BY},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - The relationship between potential categories of self-management behavior and disease knowledge level of gout patients based on K-means clustering analysis.
AU  - Zuoyun Ma
AU  - Xia Pan
AU  - Tianwang Li
AU  - Yali Wang
AU  - Chun Zheng
AU  - Li Tang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/09
JO  - Frontiers in psychology
DO  - 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1951213
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42921309
AB  - Objective  To explore the potential categories of self-management behaviors of gout patients, analyze the relationship between each category and the disease knowledge level, and provide a basis for formulating targeted intervention strategies.Methods  A total of 402 patients with gout were selected by convenience sampling. The general information questionnaire, the gout patients' self-management assessment scale, and the knowledge level measurement questionnaire were used in this study. K-means cluster analysis was used to identify the potential categories of self-management behavior.Results  The score of self-management behavior of gout patients was (142.30 ± 29.53), which could be divided into four categories: high self-management-knowledge adequacy type (28.6%), low self-management-knowledge deficiency type (15.4%), moderate self-management-insufficient transformation type (30.8%), and good self-management-knowledge deficiency type (25.1%). There were statistically significant differences in age, residence, number of acute flares in the past year, serum uric acid (SUA) level and disease knowledge level among different categories (p < 0.05).Conclusion  There is heterogeneity in self-management behavior of gout patients, and there are differences in disease knowledge level among different types of patients. Medical staff should implement hierarchical and precise intervention based on category characteristics.
SN  - 1664-1078
ER  -