Research Article
A Revised Version of Diabetes Quality of Life Instrument Maintaining Domains for Satisfaction, Impact, and Worry
Table 2
Evaluation of the revised version of DQoL: results from exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency.
| Items | | Satisfaction | Impact | Worry |
| S1 | Time takes to manage diabetes | 0.774 | | | S2 | Time spend getting checkups | 0.903 | | | S3 | Time it takes to determine the sugar level | 0.820 | | | S4 | Current treatment | 0.866 | | | S7 | Knowledge about diabetes | 0.758 | | | S12 | Body appearance | 0.482 | | | S15 | Life in general | 0.792 | | | I1 | Feel pain associated with the treatment | | 0.849 | | I2 | Embarrassed with deal with diabetes in public | | 0.372 | | I4 | Feel physically ill | | 0.787 | | I5 | Interfere with the family life | | 0.609 | | I6 | Bad night’s sleep | | 0.431 | | I7 | Limiting social relationships and friendships | | 0.358 | | I9 | Feel restricted by diet | | 0.413 | | I18 | Go bathroom more than others | | 0.414 | | W8 | Pass out | | | 0.630 | W9 | Body looks differently | | | 0.731 | W10 | Get complications | | | 0.447 |
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Extraction method: principal axis factoring. Rotation method: promax with Kaiser normalization.
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