Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California

Thompson, Hale M.; Reisner, Sari L.; VanKim, Nicole A.; Raymond, H. Fisher

doi:10.1080/15532739.2015.1039176

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“…Na medida em que pessoas transgênero são expulsas de casa ou são obrigadas a deixar o convívio familiar, elas encontram nas redes de amigos, organizações comunitárias ou não governamentais o acolhimento de sua identidade/ expressão de gênero, e podem estabelecer e fortalecer relações de suporte e confiança 39 . Os escores médios do domínio psicológico encontrados entre travestis e mulheres transexuais foram ligeiramente inferiores aos observados entre mulheres transexuais em São Francisco, Estados Unidos 47 . Em contrapartida, o escore do presente trabalho foi superior ao observado entre mulheres e homens transexuais em Barcelona, Espanha 45 , sugerindo ser interessante identificar respostas contextuais que possam impactar tal domínio.…”

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Bem-estar psicológico entre travestis e mulheres transexuais no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

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Resumo: O objetivo do trabalho foi estimar fatores associados ao bem-estar psicológico de travestis e mulheres transexuais. Estudo transversal com 602 travestis e pessoas transexuais em sete municípios do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil entre 2014 e 2015. Foi realizada seleção amostral com abordagem consecutiva e técnica bola de neve. A variável dependente foi bem-estar psicológico (WHOQOL-BREF) e as independentes foram: características sociodemográficas, modificações corporais, condições de saúde, violência e encarceramento. A análise de variância múltipla foi usada para identificar os fatores associados. A maioria tinha cor da pele preta ou parda e entre 25 e 39 anos de idade, até o Ensino Médio completo, renda individual de até dois salários mínimos e trabalhava, sendo 42,3% profissionais do sexo. Cerca de um quarto já foi presa. Em torno de um quarto fazia tratamento para HIV. O escore médio observado foi de 63,2 (IC95%: 61,8-64,6). Na análise múltipla, estiveram associados ao menor bem-estar psicológico: não ter endereço fixo, ter menor escolaridade, estar insatisfeita com as relações pessoais, suporte de amigos ou procedimentos transexualizadores realizados e ter sofrido violência verbal ou sexual. Enquanto piores condições de vida e de exposição à violência prejudicam o bem-estar psicológico de travestis e mulheres transexuais, a possibilidade de realizar transformações corporais desejadas e o respeito ao nome social interferem positivamente na avaliação que fazem de suas vidas.

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“…Answers are given on 1-to-5-point Likert scales. Summing all 26 items gives total quality of life, ranging from 26 to 130 [18]. The higher the score the better the quality of life of the patient [17].…”

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Telemedical care improves quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Results of a randomized controlled trial

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Background: Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are serious psychiatric disorders with a high disease burden, a high number of years of life lived with disability and a high risk for relapses and re-hospitalizations. Besides, both diseases are often accompanied with a reduced quality of life. A low level of quality of life is one predictor for relapses. This study examines whether a telemedical care program can improve quality of life.Methods: Post stationary telemedical care of patients with severe psychiatric disorders” (Tecla) is a prospective controlled randomized intervention trial to implement and evaluate a telemedical care concept for patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Participants were randomized to an intervention or a control group. The intervention group received telemedical care including regular, individualized telephone calls and SMS-messages. The quality of life was measured with the German version of the WHOQOL-BREF. Effects of telemedicine on quality of life after 6 months were analyzed using t-tests to compare the intervention with the control group. Participants also evaluated the telemedical care program based on a short standardized interview.Results: 118 participants were recruited, thereof 57.6 % men (n = 68). Participants were on average 43 years old (SD) 13). Linear mixed model revealed that affiliation to patient group (0 = CG, 1 = IG), gender (0 = female, 1 = male), increasing social support and higher GAF-level are positive significant influence factors for the WHOQOL total quality of life, physical, psychological, environmental and global domain. An increasing education often showed significantly decreasing quality of life values. Age as an influencing factor, showed different results on the sum score and the individual domains.Conclusion: The Tecla telemedical care concept has improved the quality of life in patients with severe psychiatric disorders. It provides for a low-threshold and well suitable component in psychiatric treatment.Trial registration: German Clinical Trials Register, DRKS00008548, registered 21 May 2015 – retrospectively registered, https://www.drks.de/drks_web/setLocale_EN.do

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“…However, in order to study quality of life, we must be able to measure it. The World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument, Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire is a commonly utilized generic measure of quality of life that is used to measure quality of life in healthy people and in different groups of patients [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire is available in many languages, and has been translated into Persian and validated in Iran by Nedjat [21].…”

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Application of World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument, Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF) in measuring quality of life in patients with cataract

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OBJECTIVES:Cataract is a prevalent disease in the elderly, and negatively influences patients’ quality of life. This study was conducted to study the application of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument, Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF) to patients with cataract.METHODS:In this cross-sectional study, 300 patients with cataract were studied in Neyshabur, Iran from July to October 2014. The Iranian version of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was used to measure their quality of life. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, the paired t-test, the independent t-test, and a linear regression model were used to analyze the data in SPSS version 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).RESULTS:The mean age of the participants was 68.11±11.98 years, and most were female (53%). The overall observed Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the WHOQOL-BREF was 0.889, ranging from 0.714 to 0.810 in its four domains. The total mean score of the respondents on the WHOQOL-BREF was 13.19. The highest and lowest mean scores were observed in the social relationship domain (14.11) and the physical health domain (12.29), respectively. A backward multiple linear regression model found that duration of disease and marital status were associated with total WHOQOL scores, while age, duration of disease, marital status, and income level were associated with domains one through four, respectively (p<0.05).CONCLUSIONS:The reliability analysis conducted in this study indicated that the WHOQOL-BREF scale exhibited an acceptable degree of internal consistency in the measurement of the quality of life of patients with cataract. It was also found that the patients with cataract who were surveyed reported a relatively moderate quality of life.

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Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California

Cited by 28 publications

References 39 publications

Bem-estar psicológico entre travestis e mulheres transexuais no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Bem-estar psicológico entre travestis e mulheres transexuais no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Telemedical care improves quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Results of a randomized controlled trial

Application of World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument, Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF) in measuring quality of life in patients with cataract

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