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| author | Tábada Samantha Marques Rosa |
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| contents | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region Tábada Samantha Marques Rosa Euler Esteves Ribeiro Kennya Márcia dos Santos Mota Vanusa do Nascimento Ednea Aguiar Maia-Ribeiro Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz Medicina aging health morbidity Quality of life 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. 2019 artículo científico 1679-9291 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=307261031002 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/307261031002.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/movil https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihealthsci.v41i1.37836 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3072 Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences application/pdf Universidade Estadual de Maringá Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences (Brasil) Vol.41 |
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| publishDate | 2019 |
| publisher | Universidade Estadual de Maringá |
| spellingShingle | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region Tábada Samantha Marques Rosa Medicina aging health morbidity Quality of life The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region Tábada Samantha Marques Rosa Euler Esteves Ribeiro Kennya Márcia dos Santos Mota Vanusa do Nascimento Ednea Aguiar Maia-Ribeiro Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz Medicina aging health morbidity Quality of life 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. 2019 artículo científico 1679-9291 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=307261031002 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/307261031002.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/movil https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihealthsci.v41i1.37836 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3072 Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences application/pdf Universidade Estadual de Maringá Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences (Brasil) Vol.41 |
| title | The quality of life and the sociocultural, economic and health characteristics of the elderly living in the amazon region |
| topic | Medicina aging health morbidity Quality of life |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=307261031002 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/307261031002.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3072/307261031002/movil https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihealthsci.v41i1.37836 |