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Objective: Osteoarthritis (OA) is to study the relationship of quality of life (QoL) with demographic and clinical variables. The quality of life of 156 patients with OA in the knee, neck, leg and/or hand (79.5 percent of women) was assessed by the OAQoL scale. The scale of 0-10 numeric rating (NRS) for pain severity, the Health Assessment Survey (HAQ) for general physical disability, the Western Ontario and the McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) and the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) for general health status were used. Results: The average age was 56±10 and the average duration of the disease was 7.2±6.4 years. With the quality of life, a significant correlation (r=0.50-0.70) between HAQ, WOMAC- pain, WOMAC-function, WOMAC-injury, NHP-physical mobility and NHP-energy was identified. QoL was not related to the number of joints affected by OA. The linear regression model was applied to determine the factors that explain the variability in QoL together. The potential factors that were statistically meaningful in one-variable linear regression analysis were used in the gradual regression procedure to select the latest multi-variable model. The final model included pain (NRS), HAQ, NHP-energy and NHP-social isolation with a fixed R2 of 0.645 . The result: In this OA group of patients, they were found as the determiners of the quality of life by describing 64.5% of the variants of pain, physical function, fatigue and social isolation.