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Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Cross-sectional Study.
Adv Skin Wound Care
December 2022
At the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, Ângela Dias, MSc and Gabriela Ferreira, PhD are Research Collaborators and Margarida Vilaça, PhD is Junior Researcher, Health & Family Research Group, Psychology Research Center (CIPsi). M. Graça Pereira, PhD is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the School of Psychology, University of Minho and Coordinator of the Health, Wellbeing, and Performance Research Lab and the Health & Family Research Group in CIPsi.
Objective: To analyze the associations among and contributions of sociodemographic, clinical, and psychological variables to quality of life (QoL) related to diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs; DFUQoL).
Methods: The sample comprised 70 patients with DFUs who answered the following questionnaires: the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Illness Perception Questionnaire-Brief, Diabetic Foot Ulcer-Short Form, Medical Term Recognition test, and a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire. Pearson and biserial correlation coefficients, hierarchical regressions, and moderation analyses were conducted to study the relationships among variables.