Introduction:

The quality of life in people with a specific disease is a measure made up of physical, mental and social well-being, as perceived by each patient and group on various components of health.

Objectives:

To determine the related quality of life with health in people with diabetes mellitus when applying the Diabetes 39 instrument in a population of the Cuban capital.

Methods:

An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out, carried out in the office of the doctor and nurse of family # 16, of the Dr. Ángel Aballí teaching polyclinic, from the municipality of Old Havana, between September 2018 and May 2019 Previously, a panel of experts made a cultural adaptation of the Mexican version of questionnaire D39 to the Cuban context. The sample consisted of 138 people with diabetes mellitus. For the analysis of the data the appropriate statistical techniques were used according to the proposed objectives.

Results:

the average age was 60.48 ± 13.1 years. The female sex was the most represented (99; 71.74%). The median total score was 58.6 points. It was taken as a cut-off point (in points) to define better (<59) and worse (≥59) quality of life. Cronbach's alpha was high ≥0.7 for the 5 sections and the final score. There were no significant differences (p≥0.05) between the medians of the section scores with the final score of the questionnaire according to sex.

Conclusions:

There was a higher frequency of people with diabetes mellitus with an no adequate quality of life related to health.

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