Health-related quality of life in diabetes mellitus patients in primary health care.

Objective: To analyse the relationship between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and sociodemographic and clinical factors in patients with diabetes mellitus, also comparing with Spanish population-based reference values.

Method: Cross-sectional descriptive-analytical observational study through nonprobability sampling on diabetic patients from San Roque Primary Health Centre (Badajoz, Spain), using a questionnaire regarding sociodemographic and diabetes care data, SF-36 and Duke-UNC questionnaires, and clinical history data.

Results: Sixty patients (55% women) fundamentally with type 2 diabetes and a mean age of 68.