Predictors of Quality of Life among Older People with Mild Cognitive Impairment Attending Urban Primary Care Clinics

Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the mild cognitive impairment questionnaire

“…Therefore, the lower the level of depression experienced by patients with MCI, the greater their perceived HRQoL. Depression has repeatedly been shown to be a variable that is predictive of HRQoL (Kang & Lee, 2018; Mirza et al, 2017; Samy et al, 2019). Finally, HRQoL was lower in women compared with men in our study, a result which is similar to findings in previously published research (Clement‐Carbonell et al, 2018; Navarro, Calero, & Calero‐García, 2015; Peralta, Jorquera, Morán, & Quiroz, 2018).…”

“…The overall prevalence of MCI in Spain is estimated to be around 18.5% of individuals aged over 65 years, and this figure is eight times higher in the group aged over 85 years (Alonso et al, 2018). It is most often seen as a reduced memory capacity and is usually accompanied by significant behavioral and emotional changes, such as depression, irritability, anxiety, apathy, and agitation (Gallagher, Fischer, & Iaboni, 2017; King, Cáceres, & Abdulkadir, 2018; Samy, Kamaruzzaman, Krishnaswamy, & Low, 2019). MCI is a clinical pathology that frequently precedes the development of dementia (Oltra‐Cucarella et al, 2018; Petersen, 2016).…”

“…Therefore, HRQoL is one of the most important measures used to study the effectiveness of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions (Bárrios et al, 2013; Dichter & Meyer, 2017). In general, researchers in the few studies designed to examine HRQoL and MCI (Chang et al, 2017; Samy et al, 2019; Stites, Harkins, Rubright, & Karlawish, 2018) have shown that older people with this pathology have a lower HRQoL compared with older people who are cognitively healthy.…”

“…Indeed, if people affected by MCI feel that the severity of their memory problems is beyond that normally expected for their age, they tend to develop a fear of suffering dementia at the end of their life, which negatively affects their HRQoL score (Hsiao et al, 2016; Stites et al, 2018). Furthermore, the symptoms of depression usually presented by elderly people with MCI (Feng, Jones, & Phillips, 2019; Heredia‐Amador, Calvo‐Salguero, Salinas, & Gamella, 2018; Manav, Yesilot, Demirci, & Oztunc, 2018) result in poorer assessments of their self‐perceived health (Atif, Saleem, & Scahill, 2018; Pusswald et al, 2016; Samy et al, 2019) and a decrease in their activities of daily living (Chang et al, 2017; Cho et al, 2018; Kamiya, Osawa, Kondo, & Sakurai, 2018).…”

Instrumentos para la evaluación de la calidad de vida de adultos mayores. Un estudio de revisión bibliográfica

“…Las propiedades psicométricas del WHOQOL-BREF en su versión al español demostraron una consistencia interna de 0.70 para sus dimensiones y 0.89 de manera global, una correlación entre sus factores que alcanzaron los 0.91, obtenido en una muestra de 678 participantes (Huerta, Romo & Tayabas, 2017), de igual manera, en su escala total se evidenció una puntación 0.90 de consistencia interna a partir de una encuesta a 286 adultos mayores españoles (Lucas-Carrasco, Laidlaw & Power, 2011), 0.88 de consistencia interna del instrumento de su versión en lenguaje español y puntajes que oscilan entre 0.70 y 0.79 para cada dimensión en una muestra de 1520 adultos mayores mexicanos (Espinoza et al, 2011); de igual manera, se evidenciaron puntuaciones alpha de Cronbach entre 0.78 -0.82 para en un estudio realizado a 3400 adultos asiáticos hasta los 95 años (Suárez, Tay & Abdullah, 2018). En lo que concierne a la utilidad y eficacia de esta prueba, se evidenció que, en centros de atención sanitaria, pacientes clínicos/hospitalizados e instituciones relacionadas a actividades de cuidado físico-mental del adulto mayor y en general, emplean el cuestionario WHOQOL-BREF para evaluar la calidad de vida de las personas adultas mayores (Samy et al, 2020;Orellana, Manthorpe & Tinker, 2020;Kruithof et al, 2018;Snell et al, 2016).…”