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Aim: Diabetes is one of the fastest-growing non-communicable global epidemics of the 21st century. Diabetes continues to increase rapidly and affects more and more people every day, in our country as well as all over the world. To live and manage diabetes; The individual needs to acquire many very healthy living behaviors. It is known that individuals with diabetes may experience difficulties in individual, personal and psychosocial aspects while performing diabetes management. From this point of view, this research is a methodological study conducted with the aim of developing the scale of strengths and difficulties in diabetes. The aim of the study is to reveal the difficulties experienced by individuals with type 2 diabetes and to shed light on the work that can be done for these difficulties. Method: The study was conducted with 315 individuals with Type 2 diabetes who applied to the internal medicine outpatient clinics of a state hospital. The study data were collected with the sociodemographic data form and the “Diabetes Strengths and Difficulties Scale”. The validity of the scale was examined as language, content (content) validity and construct validity. Reliability analyzes of the scale was calculated with the Cronbach Alpha value. Results: As a result of the factor analysis, a 3-dimensional structure (psychosocial difficulties, individual difficulties, difficulties related to lack of knowledge) consisting of 30 items with an item load value between 0.859-0.522 was obtained. It explains 59.328% of the total variance. Conclusion: It has been concluded that the scale of strengths and difficulties in diabetes applied to individuals with type 2 diabetes is a valid and reliable scale.