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

Extraction method: principal axis factoring. Rotation method: promax with Kaiser normalization.