TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The purposes of this paper were to assess the quality of life (QoL) in patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) in a suburban tertiary hospital and determine the factors that affect the QoL including individual characteristics, health factors, self-care behaviors and social support.Design/methodology/approach This study was a cross-sectional study among DM type II cases being treated in a suburban tertiary hospital in Thailand. Data were collected by personal interview from 188 patients in 2018. Diabetes-39 was administered to assess QoL.Findings 54.3 percent of patients had good QoL. Total score of QoL was moderate which found an average score of 216.0 ± 41.0, 46.8% had moderate level in self-care behaviors and 56.4 percent had moderate level in social support. The factors associated with QoL in patients were cerebrovascular disease (Fisher = 7.2, p = 0.01), self-care behaviors (rs = 0.191, p = 0.008) and social support (rs = 0.229, p = 0.002).Originality/value Health care system ought to develop a policy driven to improve the QoL in DM type II patients by encouraging self-care behaviors and social support for DM type II patients. VL - 35 IS - 1 SN - 2586-940X DO - 10.1108/JHR-05-2019-0100 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/JHR-05-2019-0100 AU - Komaratat Chankawee AU - Auemaneekul Naruemon AU - Kittipichai Wirin PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/01/01 TI - Quality of life for type II diabetes mellitus patients in a suburban tertiary hospital in Thailand T2 - Journal of Health Research PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 3 EP - 14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -