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Data collected by completion of SF-36 Health Survey (SF-36).<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p><jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>: Of the 120 participants, 65.8% were men and 73% were more than 60 years of age. Patients showed moderate to high levels of quality of life in social functionality, energy\/fatigue, emotional well-being, and physical pain (medians: 50, 60, 72, and 67.5, respectively) and poor levels in physical functioning, role physical, and role emotional (medians: 22, 0 and 0, respectively). In addition, patients had moderate levels of quality of life in general health (median: 48.5). \ufeffIt was observed that physical functioning was significantly associated with place of residence (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.005). Moreover, physical role was significantly associated with age (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.020) and occupation (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.018), while emotional role was significantly associated with age (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.012), marital status (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.016), and occupation (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.012). Energy\/fatigue was significantly associated with age (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.026), marital status (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.018), and occupation (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.009). Emotional well-being was significantly associated with gender (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.009), level of education (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.001), and occupation (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.007). Social functionality was significantly associated with marital status (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.001) while pain was significantly associated with education level (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.010). General health was significantly associated with marital status (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.037), and place of residence (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>=0.024).<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions<\/jats:bold>: The findings of the present study may adequately inform stakeholders in the field of diabetic foot ulcer grade 3 when planning effective care.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/folmed.64.e64876","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]],"date-time":"2022-05-12T08:02:49Z","timestamp":1652342569000},"page":"229-239","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Quality of life in diabetic foot ulcer, grade 3: associated demographic factors"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"64","author":[{"given":"Maria","family":"Polikandrioti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"64876_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"1. 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