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Evaluación de la calidad de vida en Diabetes Mellitus Tipo II: propiedades psicométricas de la versión en español del DQOL

2003; Cologio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

0214-9915

Autores

Rebeca Robles García, Jaqueline Cortázar, Juan José Sánchez Sosa, Francisco Páez Agraz, Humberto Nicolini Sánchez,

Tópico(s)

Diabetes Management and Education

Resumo

Quality of life assessment in Diabetes Mellitus II patients: Psychometric properties of Spa nish version of DQOL. The aim of the study was to translate and calculate valid ity and reliab ility of Spanish v ersion of an specific measure of Quality of Life for Diabetes DQOL, in 152 Diabetes Mellitus Type II patients. Subjects complete DQOL and Anxiety and Depression Beck In ventories. Then , Cronbach alpha test, factor analysis an d Pearson correlations were performed. Adequate alphas were obtained for total score and all DQOL sub scales (range between .68 and .86); factor structure was similar to the origin al one; and positive and moderate correlations between measures of anxiety and depression and pore Quality of Life were obtained. The data o f the p resent study suggest that Sp anish version of DQOL is a valid and reliab ility instrument to assess Quality of Life in persons with Diabetes Mellitus II.

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