Research Article

A Revised Version of Diabetes Quality of Life Instrument Maintaining Domains for Satisfaction, Impact, and Worry

Table 7

The proposed scoring for each domain and total score for a revised DQoL.

DomainsNumber of itemsRange of score for each itemRange of scoreConverted to percentage

Satisfaction (S)61 to 56–30(S)/30 × 100
Impact (I)44–20(I)/20 × 100
Worry (W)33–15(W)/15 × 100
Total1313–65Total/65 × 100

Higher score indicates poorer quality of life.