Domains of importance to the quality of life of older people from two Swiss regions

Abstract

The importance older people give to domains of their QoL appears strongly related to their actual resources and experienced losses. These findings may help clinicians, researchers and policy makers better adapt strategies to individuals' needs.

The Perception of Wroclaw as a Liveable City

“…The likelihood-ratio test and the Wald test were used to select the model which is best fitted to the data. The selected model (11) comprised the variables shown in table 5. Table 5 also presents the estimates of parameters with standard errors of estimation, and p-values for the Wald test.…”

“…Table 5 also presents the estimates of parameters with standard errors of estimation, and p-values for the Wald test. (11) Each explanatory variable is coded either as "1" when the respondent perceived Wroclaw as a good or very good city to live for a given group of people, or "-1" otherwise. Such coding of variables and the positive sign of the indicator variable's coefficient imply that the good and very good perception of Wroclaw as a city to live for families and young people increase the chances of Wroclaw to be perceived as a liveable city.…”

Intervals between response choices on a single-item measure of quality of life

“…A secondary analysis was conducted on data from a previous study on quality of life in older people [18]. Briefly, study participants were community-dwelling adults aged 68 years and older, recruited from the Lausanne cohort 65+ study (Lc65+) and two additional, stratified, random samples selected from population lists in cantons of Vaud and Geneva.…”

“…Corresponding response choices for self-rated health in the French version of the SF-36 were used [19]. In addition, participants were asked to complete a 28-item QoL questionnaire, which was recently developed to reflect the convergence of health, social, cultural and economic factors of older people’s QoL (see Additional file 1) [18]. Previous analyses conducted on an exploratory sample and a validation sample of community-dwelling older people indicated a highly consistent factorial structure comprising seven QoL domains ( Feeling of safety ; Health and mobility ; Autonomy ; Close entourage ; Material resources ; Esteem and recognition ; and Social and cultural life ) [18].…”

“…In addition, participants were asked to complete a 28-item QoL questionnaire, which was recently developed to reflect the convergence of health, social, cultural and economic factors of older people’s QoL (see Additional file 1) [18]. Previous analyses conducted on an exploratory sample and a validation sample of community-dwelling older people indicated a highly consistent factorial structure comprising seven QoL domains ( Feeling of safety ; Health and mobility ; Autonomy ; Close entourage ; Material resources ; Esteem and recognition ; and Social and cultural life ) [18]. Each one of the 28 QoL items was rated by respondents on its perceived discomfort or dissatisfaction (not at all, a little, a lot), and on its importance to their own QoL (very low, quite low, quite high, very high).…”