A 5-Year Follow-Up of Diabetes Knowledge in Persons With Serious Mental Illness and Type 2 Diabetes

Letter to the Editor

Sir: Despite the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in persons
with serious mental illness, there has been only limited study of
diabetes knowledge in this group. In a previous report, we found
that among 201 persons with serious mental illness and type 2 diabetes,
the mean score on a diabetes knowledge test was only 54%.
We reassessed the diabetes knowledge of persons in our sample
5 years later, in a period of heightened focus on diabetes among
persons with serious mental illness.