Research Article Study of Health-Related Quality of Life and Healthcare UtilizationamongType2DiabeticPopulationinanUrbanAreaof Eastern Nepal Sangita Shah , 1 Nilambar Jha, 1 Deepak Kumar Yadav , 1 Prajjwal Pyakurel , 1 Sanjib Kumar Sharma , 2 and Suman Bahadur Singh 1 1 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P.Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal 2 Department of Internal Medicine, B.P.Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal Correspondence should be addressed to Sangita Shah; sangita.shah@bpkihs.edu Received 8 September 2020; Revised 7 November 2020; Accepted 14 December 2020; Published 24 December 2020 Academic Editor: Alexander Schreiber Copyright © 2020 Sangita Shah et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and places huge burden on public health funding. Diabetes affects quality of life through associated complications, comorbidity, and disease burden. Consequently, people have frequent healthcare visits. is study assessed quality of life and healthcare utilization patterns among type 2 diabetic populations in an urban area of eastern Nepal. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 270 participants of age ≥20 years with type 2 diabetes in Itahari using a semistructured questionnaire. A D-39 questionnaire was used to assess quality of life. Five wards were selected by systematic random sampling, and the population was proportionate according to the sample size. Multiple linear regressions were conducted to identify the factors associated with quality of life and its domains. Results. e highest mean score ± SD was found in the domain anxiety and worry (57.34 ± 11.08). About 18.5% of the participants perceived extremely affected quality of life. Hypertension (55.55%) was the most common comorbidity. Age, marital status, literacy, alcohol, disease duration, comorbidity, and complications were significantly associated with overall quality of life. In last 6 months of duration, 93.7% had hospital visits. Among them, 8.1% had emergency visit and 5.9% were admitted in the hospital. Conclusion. People with diabetes in this study were more affected in the domain anxiety and worry. e frequency of healthcare access and utilization in patients with type 2 diabetes was high. e quality of life among them could be improved by taking care on healthy behavior, comorbid conditions, and complications. 1. Introduction Due to social and economic transition, leading to behavioral and metabolic risk factors, diabetes is leading as an emerging major public health problem in Nepal, with rising prevalence and its complications, especially in urban populations [1, 2]. It is a chronic, incurable, costly, and largely preventable noncommunicable disease which is responsible for millions of deaths globally [3]. Diabetes has multidimensional effect in QOL such as social, physical, and role functioning, worries about the future, and emotional and general well-being [4]. For this, people living with diabetes require regular visits to several healthcare professionals and utilization of the service of clinics and outpatient centres [5, 6]. is study assist healthcare practitioners, institution, policy makers, and community people to better understand quality of life and healthcare utilization in type 2 diabetes mellitus [7]. is study is aimed to assess the health-related quality of life and healthcare utilization among type 2 diabetic pop- ulation in an urban area of eastern Nepal. 2. Materials and Methods A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 270 type 2 diabetes patients residing in Itahari, a Hindawi International Journal of Endocrinology Volume 2020, Article ID 8839905, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8839905