Table 3 Comparison of QoL scores among male patients with diabetes and controls in Calabar (N = 174)

 1 How would you rate your quality of life?

3.79 ± 0.89

3.55 ± 0.57

0.03*

 2 How satisfied are you with your health?

3.38 ± 0.97

3.52 ± 0.86

0.32

 3 How much physical pain prevents you from doing things?

4.17 ± 0.99

3.72 ± 0.87

0.00*

 4 How much do you need medical treatment to function daily?

3.03 ± 1.01

4.24 ± 0.78

0.00*

 10 Do you have enough energy for everyday life?

3.14 ± 0.82

3.38 ± 0.85

0.06

 15 How well are you able to go around?

3.59 ± 0.62

3.10 ± 0.76

0.00*

 16 How satisfied are you with your sleep?

2.97 ± 1.07

3.45 ± 0.82

0.00*

 17 How satisfied are you with ability to perform daily activities?

3.00 ± 1.09

3.17 ± 0.70

0.22

 18 How satisfied are you with your capacity for work?

3.17 ± 0.96

3.52 ± 0.78

0.01*

 Subtotal score for physical health

23.07 ± 4.70

24.59 ± 3.57

0.02*

 5 How much do you enjoy life?

2.45 ± 0.62

2.55 ± 0.68

0.30

 6 To what extent do you feel your life to be meaningful?

2.45 ± 0.77

2.69 ± 0.70

0.03*

 7 How well are you able to concentrate?

3.17 ± 0.88

3.14 ± 0.63

0.77

 11 Are you able to accept your bodily appearance?

3.34 ± 1.03

3.72 ± 0.87

0.10

 19 How satisfied are you with yourself?

3.62 ± 0.77

3.55 ± 0.97

0.60

 26 How often do you have negative feelings such as mood, despair, anxiety, and depression?

4.48 ± 0.73

3.76 ± 0.82

0.00*

 Subtotal score for psychological health

19.52 ± 2.17

19.41 ± 1.95

0.74

 20 How satisfied are you with your personal relationships?

3.24 ± 1.01

3.76 ± 0.78

0.00*

 21 How satisfied are you with the support you get from friends?

2.93 ± 1.35

3.14 ± 1.05

0.26

 22 How satisfied are you with your sex life?

3.24 ± 1.23

3.30 ± 1.42

0.78

 Subtotal score for social relationship

9.41 ± 2.74

10.20 ± 2.32

0.04*

 8 How safe do you feel in your daily life?

3.24 ± 0.73

3.41 ± 0.62

0.10

 9 How healthy is your physical environment?

3.28 ± 0.74

3.76 ± 0.90

0.00*

 12 Have you enough money to meet your needs?

3.00 ± 0.84

2.69 ± 0.70

0.01*

 13 How available to you is the information that you need daily?

2.93 ± 0.79

2.14 ± 0.94

0.00*

 14 To what extent do you have the opportunity for leisure?

2.72 ± 0.87

2.48 ± 1.17

0.13

 23 How satisfied are you with condition of your living space?

3.10 ± 0.81

3.62 ± 0.67

0.00*

 24 How satisfied are you with your access to health?

3.17 ± 1.09

2.07 ± 1.24

0.00*

 25 How satisfied are you with your transport?

3.31 ± 0.84

3.07 ± 0.64

0.04*

 Subtotal score for environment

24.76 ± 3.97

23.24 ± 3.58

0.01*

 Domain-based Total QoL score

76.76 ± 11.7

77.44 ± 9.53

0.68