Factors Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life among Jordanian Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcer

Table 4

Mean scores of Diabetic Foot Scale-Short Form and the two component summary of Short form-8 according to sociodemographic, clinical, and diabetic foot characteristics.

Clinical variables	DFS-SF mean (SD)	PCS8 mean (SD)	MCS8 mean (SD)
Gender
Male	44.9 (17.5)	40.4 (9.8)	42.8 (11.5)
Female	35.4 (14.0)	36.5 (9.9)	39.7 (9.9)
value	0.002	0.034	0.126
Educational status
≤high school	39.0 (15.4)	37.3 (9.5)	39.9 (10.7)
>high school	46.2 (18.3)	41.9 (10.0)	44.4 (11.2)
value	0.011	0.006	0.017
Occupational status
Employed	45.0 (18.4)	42.1 (9.1)	43.4 (11.7)
Unemployed	41.1 (16.5)	38.3 (10.1)	41.4 (10.9)
value	0.242	0.049	0.351
Stressful events in the last year
Yes	36.9 (14.5)	37.4 (9.7)	39.7 (11.0)
No	51.0 (17.6)	42.5 (9.5)	45.5 (10.4)
value	0.000	0.003	0.003
Duration of foot ulcer (month)
<1	45.8 (17.3)	42.1 (10.0)	44.0 (10.6)
1-3	39.5 (13.6)	37.4 (10.0)	40.2 (10.1)
>3	39.9 (18.5)	37.5 (9.2)	40.7 (12.1)
value	0.116	0.022	0.170
PVD
Yes	35.8 (13.2)	35.9 (8.9)	40.1 (10.7)
No	44.7 (17.8)	40.7 (10.1)	42.6 (11.2)
value	0.004	0.009	0.235
Offloading device
None	43.9 (17.9)	41.1 (10.5)	40.2 (10.8)
Felted foam padding	47.2 (18.4)	40.0 (10.1)	45.0 (11.0)
Half shoe	40.7 (13.4)	39.1 (9.8)	40.5 (10.9)
Removable cast walker	36.4 (15.0)	37.8 (9.4)	40.2 (12.0)
Total contact cast	30.3 (5.7)	32.9 (7.0)	40.9 (6.2)
value	0.016	0.280	0.223
Infection
Yes	39.1 (15.9)	38.6 (10.3)	41.7 (10.7)
No	45.1 (17.7)	40.0 (9.6)	42.0 (11.5)
value	0.035	0.400	0.886
Amputation
Yes/minor	39.6 (17.5)	39.0 (8.4)	38.8 (11.6)
No	43.3 (16.7)	39.4 (10.6)	43.3 (10.6)
value	0.227	0.812	0.023
Wagner classification
Grade 1	48.3 (18.4)	41.0 (10.2)	44.7 (10.1)
Grade 2	40.3 (15.6)	39.6 (9.9)	40.8 (10.9)
≥Grade 3	38.6 (16.2)	37.3 (9.6)	41.6 (12.0)
value	0.016	0.226	0.149
Type of diabetes
Type 1	45.7 (20.4)	40.3 (10.1)	48.5 (13.6)
Type 2	41.8 (16.8)	39.2 (10.0)	41.3 (10.8)
value	0.470	0.734	0.037
BMI
Nonobese	46.3 (17.1)	41.6 (9.7)	43.5 (11.1)
Obese	39.5 (16.4)	37.8 (9.9)	40.8 (11.2)
value	0.018	0.026	0.159

value < 0.05.