Objective.

To determine the influence of behavioral and biological agents on the risk for diabetic foot in adult stages of pre and old age who attend mutual aid groups.

Material and methods:

Correlational-predictive, with a sample of 105 people collected by convenience in mutual aid groups from three counties of Coahuila, Mexico. A personal data card, the IMEVID instrument (α = .81), the EBADE scale (α = .78), the collection of anthropometric measurements, metabolic biomarkers were applied and the risk assessment for diabetic foot was performed. Descriptive statistics, spearman correlation and regression models were applied.

Results:

87 (82.9%) women and 18 (17.1%) men participated with an M = 62.60 years (SD = 10,330) years. The risk for diabetic foot was related to the barriers to self-care in diabetes (r = .224, p <0.5) and the body mass index (r = .255, p <0.5).

The model predicts the risk of 19.6% (F = 6.803, R2 = 19.6, p = 0.001), the predictor variables being the barriers to self-care in diabetes, low-density cholesterol and the body mass index.

Conclution:

Behavioral and biological factors predict the increased risk for diabetic foot, so it gives us a general assessment of the health of mutual aid groups in Mexico.

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