ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the relationship between the life quality and the disease uncertainty of the patients with high risk of diabetic foot. Methods The data of 235 patients with high risk of diabetic foot were selected by the convenience sampling method, using the life quality scale for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(DMQLS revised edition) and the uncertainty of disease scale (MUIS). Results The total score on life quality in the diabetic patients with high risk was (138.04 ± 7.32), which was at a high level. The psychological dimension ranked on the top in terms of the score, following by physiological dimension, social dimension, disease dimension and satisfaction dimension. The overall score on the uncertainty was (100.09 ±6.89), which was at intermediate level. The dimension of unpredictability ranked on the top, followed by uncertainty, complexity and lack of information. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the uncertainty together with its four dimension was negatively related with quality of life (all P <0.05). Conclusions The life quality in the patients with high risk of diabetes is generally poor and their sense of uncertainty is at the moderate level. The quality of life is negatively correlated with the uncertainty of disease. So reducing the disease uncertainty is helpful for the improvement of the quality of life.