abstract—diabetes is considered a lifestyle disease and a well
managed self-care plays an important role in the treatment.
clinicians often conduct surveys to understand the self-care
behaviours in their patients. in this context, we propose to use
self-organising maps (som) to explore the survey data for
assessing the self-care behaviours in type-1 diabetic patients.
specifically, som is used to visualise high dimensional similar patient profiles, which is rarely discussed. experiments demonstrate
that our findings through som analysis corresponds well to the
expectations of the clinicians. in addition, our findings inspire the
experts to improve their understanding of the self-care behaviours
for their patients. the principle findings in our study show: 1)
patients who take correct dose of insulin, inject insulin at the
right time, 2) patients who take correct food portions undertake
regular physical activity and 3) patients who eat on time take
correct food portions.