Reference population

N = 694

N (%)

Item 1: evaluation of the general QoL

Excellent

Very good

Good

Neither good nor bad

Bad

Very bad

Extremely bad

Item 2: if I did not have diabetes, my QoL would be…

Very much better

Much better

A little bit better

The same

Worse

N = 685

59 (8.6%)

179 (26.1%)

282 (41.2%)

124 (18.1%)

32 (4.7%)

5 (0.7%)

4 (0.6%)

N = 685

126 (18.4%)

315 (46.0%)

164 (23.9%)

77 (11.2%)

3 (0.4%)