The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region
WHOQOL-Bref is widely used to assess quality of life. The present study estimated the prevalence of elderly people with low quality of life and the association of socio-cultural, economic and health variables. The elderly were classified as low (< 60 points) or regular/good (> 60 points). The...
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| author | Tábada Samantha Marques Rosa Euler Esteves Ribeiro Kennya Márcia dos Santos Mota Vanusa do Nascimento Ednea Aguiar Maia-Ribeiro Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz |
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| description | WHOQOL-Bref is widely used to assess quality of life. The present study estimated the prevalence of elderly people with low quality of life and the association of socio-cultural, economic and health variables. The elderly were classified as low (< 60 points) or regular/good (> 60 points). The elderly (1431) were investigated, most of the elderly were married, with low schooling, with own income and lived with their spouse or other relatives. A large part (20.8%) reported having performed some habitual physical activity, (24.7%) smoked and (7.1%) ingested high amounts of alcohol. The mean WHOQOL-Bref score was 87.9 ± 11.6 points, with 6.1% having poor quality of life and 93.9% regular/good. There was a high number of elderly people with hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and stroke in the low quality of life group. Also, it showed a high frequency in the elderly who reported very poor/poor vision, hearing and the prevalence of hospitalizations. The results suggested that the quality of life standards assessed by the WHOQOL-Bref are similar to the Southern Brazilian regions and the cut-off point used here was reliable for detecting poor quality of life associated with chronic morbidities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dadcf70304714f508a7c4ea2cd05ab5a2022-12-21T22:42:15ZengUniversidade Estadual de MaringáActa Scientiarum. Health Sciences1679-92911807-86482019-05-01411e37836e3783610.4025/actascihealthsci.v41i1.3783619935The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon regionTábada Samantha Marques Rosa0Euler Esteves Ribeiro1Kennya Márcia dos Santos Mota2Vanusa do Nascimento3Ednea Aguiar Maia-Ribeiro4Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz5Universidade Federal de Santa MariaUniversidade do Estado do AmazonasPontifica Universidade CatólicaUniversidade do Estado do AmazonasUniversidade do Estado do AmazonasUniversidade do Estado do Amazonas / Universidade Federal de Santa MariaWHOQOL-Bref is widely used to assess quality of life. The present study estimated the prevalence of elderly people with low quality of life and the association of socio-cultural, economic and health variables. The elderly were classified as low (< 60 points) or regular/good (> 60 points). The elderly (1431) were investigated, most of the elderly were married, with low schooling, with own income and lived with their spouse or other relatives. A large part (20.8%) reported having performed some habitual physical activity, (24.7%) smoked and (7.1%) ingested high amounts of alcohol. The mean WHOQOL-Bref score was 87.9 ± 11.6 points, with 6.1% having poor quality of life and 93.9% regular/good. There was a high number of elderly people with hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and stroke in the low quality of life group. Also, it showed a high frequency in the elderly who reported very poor/poor vision, hearing and the prevalence of hospitalizations. The results suggested that the quality of life standards assessed by the WHOQOL-Bref are similar to the Southern Brazilian regions and the cut-off point used here was reliable for detecting poor quality of life associated with chronic morbidities.http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHealthSci/article/view/37836quality of lifeagingmorbidityhealth. |
| spellingShingle | Tábada Samantha Marques Rosa Euler Esteves Ribeiro Kennya Márcia dos Santos Mota Vanusa do Nascimento Ednea Aguiar Maia-Ribeiro Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences quality of life aging morbidity health. |
| title | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region |
| title_full | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region |
| title_fullStr | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region |
| title_full_unstemmed | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region |
| title_short | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region |
| title_sort | quality of life and the sociocultural economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region |
| topic | quality of life aging morbidity health. |
| url | http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHealthSci/article/view/37836 |
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