Table 6.

Clinical and psychological predictive factors of QoL in multivariable regression model (Female patients)

	Beta coefficient	Standard error	t	p value	R2 adjusted
Trait anxiety (STAI-T score)	− 0.415	0.130	− 3.207	< 0.005	0.544
Fear of hypoglycemia (FH-15 score)	− 0.540	0.113	− 4.797	< 0.001
Depression (Beck score)	− 0.484	0.195	− 2.483	< 0.05
Glycemic instability*	− 0.295	0.136	− 2.163	< 0.05

*Glycemic instability is defined as number of episodes of severe hypoglycaemia, mild hypoglycemia (≤ 70 mg/dl) and hyperglycemic excursions (≥ 250 mg/dl) in 15 days prior to evaluation