Table 4.
Changes in quality of life for diabetic patients versus non-diabetic patients
| Diabetic | Non-diabetic | |||
| Baseline N = 96 | 1 year N = 73 | Baseline N = 491 | 1 year N = 418 | |
| Health Perception Scale (mean score) | 65.1 (60.6,69.5) | 65.3 (61.1,69.5) | 70.8 (68.9,72.6) | 74.0 (72.3,75.6) |
| Duke activities status index (mean score) | 19.4 (16.4,22.3) | 20.8 (17.6,23.9) | 30.0 (28.3,31.6) | 29.9 (28.2,31.6) |
| General health perception | ||||
| Good – Excellent | 56.2 | 73.6 | 67.6 | 82.5 |
| Fair – Poor | 44.8 | 27.4 | 32.4 | 17.5 |
| Abilities to perform tasks | ||||
| Can do anything/almost anything | 56.4 | 50.7 | 72.3 | 70.5 |
| Trouble with some things/anything | 45.6 | 49.3 | 27.7 | 29.5 |
| Optimistic about returning to normal health | ||||
| Strongly agree/Agree | 71.7 | 61.7 | 75.4 | 67.9 |
| Disagree/Strongly disagree | 5.4 | 15.0 | 6.1 | 10.8 |
| Work status | ||||
| Full-or part-time work | 34.1 | 14.3 | 53.3 | 36.1 |
| Sick leave | 2.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 3.0 |
| Other | 63.7 | 82.3 | 45.0 | 59.0 |
Values are given as percentages of n unless otherwise indicated.