Background: The main goal of therapeutic treatment is improved the patient quality of life. Most diabetes mellitus patient have low quality of life especially in female. Therefore this study aims to identify the quality of life among female with diabetes mellitus. Methodology: the method of this sudy was descriptive and cross sectional. Respondent who meets inclusion criteria were included in this study. Quality of life were analyzed using WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Results: there were 58 female respondent include in this study. Majority of female respondent were 41-60 years old (60,34%), diagnosed with diabetes mellitus for less than 5 years (58,62%) with no complication (67,24%). According to WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire majority female respondent have moderate quality of life (38%), followed by low quality of life (34%), good quality of life (24%) and very good quality of life (4%). Conclusion: Majority of female respondent with diabetes mellitus have moderate quality of life.
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