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Background and purpose: One of the important concepts in diabetic mellitus as a chronic
disease is quality of life that it has extensive effects on social and individual performance.Due to the
short-term and long- term effects and expensive costs of these diseases,the present study was carried out
to determine the quality of life of these patients and finally was presented a structural model.
Material and Methods: This study was performed on250patients with type IIdiabetes in Yazd.it
was used from the questionnaire of standard quality of life(QOLID)as the data collection tool that
contains a total of34questions and8domains Role Limitation Due to Physical Health,Physical
Endurance,General Healt,Treatment Satisfaction,Symptom Bothe,Financial Worries,Emotional/Mental
Health,Diet Satisfaction . Data were analyzed by using from spss(16) and amos(21)softwares.
Results: in this study درصد 42 of the patients were male and درصد 58 were female.Betweenquality of
lifeandage groupsEducation,income and smoking,there was significant relationship(P<0.05).According to
the study, domains general health and physical endurance had the lowest mean.according to the result,
diabetes in the domains on quality of life of diseases had the most influence.in structural model,Direct
effect of endurance physically on general health,role limitation,mental healthand treatment
satisfaction,was(0.69, 0.57, -0.29,0.19)respectively.Direct effect of general health and role limitations on
Treatment Satisfaction was(0.30,-0.13) respectively.All of the direct effects were significanted at the level
of 0.05.Indirect effect physical endurance on treatment satisfaction was0.28that it was significanted at the
level of0.05.
Conclusion: Diabetes is a chronic disease that severely effects on the patient's quality of
life.Every attempt in predicting structural models of quality of life play a meaningful role in the solution
of patient's problems.