Self‐perceived health and quality of life by activity status in community‐dwelling older adults

Pino, Lara; González-Vélez, Abel E; Flores, María Eugenia Prieto-Flores; Ayala, Alba; Fernández-Mayoralas, Gloria; Rojo-Pérez, Fermina; Martinez‐Martín, Pablo; Forjaz, Maria João

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“…Engaging in cognitively stimulating activities or group social activities and a high level of social support were associated with a better HRQL. In line with our results, a previous Spanish study on community-dwelling adults aged ≥60 found that social support, measured with DUFSS, had a positive effect on HRQL [13]. Similarly, in a German population-based cohort of 2443 people aged ≥75 years, a strong association was found between social support and HRQL (EQ-VAS) [43].…”

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Health-related quality of life and associated factors in functionally independent older people

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BackgroundHealth-related quality of life (HRQL) is a key indicator of elderly people’s health status that can be affected by different factors. However, little is known about which variables are associated with it in functionally independent elderly people. The aim of this project was to study HRQL and a wide variety of health, lifestyle, social and contextual aspects and their relation to HRQL in a sample of functionally independent, non-cognitively impaired community-dwelling adults, over 65 years of age, from a northern region of Spain.MethodsA cross-sectional study for which data was collected by face-to-face interviews with the selected individuals. HRQL was measured with the EuroQol-5D scale, consisting of a 5 item descriptive system and a visual analogue scale (VAS). VAS values lower than 70 were considered poor HRQL. Binary logistic regression was used to identify factors related to the outcome.ResultsSix hundred and thirty-four individuals were included in the study. The mean age was 74.8 (SD 6.7) years, 55% of the participants were women and 46% rated their HRQL as poor. Several variables were found to be significantly associated with a poor HRQL in the multivariate model, adjusted for age and sex: polypharmacy (OR: 2.32, 95% CI: 1.62–3.31), the presence of sensory impairment (OR: 1.83, 95% CI: 1.24–2.69), not being engaged in cognitively stimulating activities (OR: 2.51, 95% CI: 1.03–6.16), or in group social activities (OR: 1.57, 95% CI: 1.11–2.22), low level of social support (OR: 3.12, 95%CI: 1.78–5.46) and the presence of obstacles in the closest home environment (OR: 1.83, 95%CI: 1.11–3.02).ConclusionsThe study identified a set of health, social and contextual variables as strongly related to HRQL in functionally independent community-dwelling older people. The results highlight the multidimensional nature of HRQL. They also reveal the importance of a comprehensive assessment of HRQL when designing adequate health-related programmes aiming to enhance active and healthy ageing and delay the onset of dependence.

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Health-related quality of life and associated factors in functionally independent older people

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“…Por otro lado, nuestro estudio muestra una relación negativa del estado de salud con la edad, confirmando la evidencia empírica previa (Olsen y Dahl, 2007;Romero et al, 2010;Pino et al, 2014). Se obtiene una relación positiva respecto al nivel de estudios, confirmando evidencias anteriores en España (Karlsdotter et al, 2012;Pino et al, 2014), mientras que si bien las mujeres presentan valores menores en su estado de salud autopercibido, confirmando otros estudios (ej., Olsen y Dahl, 2007), esta relación negativa no es estadísticamente significativa.…”

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“…Se obtiene una relación positiva respecto al nivel de estudios, confirmando evidencias anteriores en España (Karlsdotter et al, 2012;Pino et al, 2014), mientras que si bien las mujeres presentan valores menores en su estado de salud autopercibido, confirmando otros estudios (ej., Olsen y Dahl, 2007), esta relación negativa no es estadísticamente significativa. En lo que se refiere a una mayor utilización de servicios sanitarios, lógicamente, la misma está relacionada negativamente con el estado de salud percibido de los encuestados.…”

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“…Finalmente se han incluido otra serie de variables explicativas del estado de salud que la literatura tradicionalmente ha considerado, como las variables sociodemográficas de género, edad y nivel de estudios (Olsen y Dahl, 2007;Pino et al, 2014). El nivel de estudios se ha establecido según las categorías que detalla el INE en su estadística nacional.…”

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Actividad física y salud autopercibida en personas mayores de 50 años / Physical Activity and Self-Perceived Health among People Aged 50 and Over

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AGRADECIMIENTOSEste estudio se ha desarrollado en el marco del proyecto de investigación "Actividad física y deportiva y su impacto en la salud y bienestar del ciudadano: Implicaciones económicas (186/UPB10/12), financiado por el Consejo Superior de Deportes (España). Código UNESCO / UNESCO RESUMENEl propósito del estudio es analizar los posibles efectos de la actividad física sobre la salud autopercibida. Para ello, se encuestó a 765 personas entre 50-70 años durante 2012 en España. Se utilizó el cuestionario internacional de actividad física (IPAQ) para estimar el equivalente metabólico de la tarea (MET) total y en cuatro ámbitos: trabajo, ocio, hogar y desplazamientos. La salud autopercibida se obtuvo de la escala visual analógica del EQ-5D-5L.

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“…The five values that were possible answers of each question (Supplementary materials -page 5) were summed up to produce a total score ranging from 11 to 55, following the same methodology used by others (Pino et al, 2014). Then, to be able to model it, we adjusted its distribution to a negative binomial using a new variable defined as the maximum of the index (55) minus the observed value.…”

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Natural outdoor environments and mental and physical health: Relationships and mechanisms

Triguero-Mas

Dadvand

Cirach

et al. 2015

Environment International

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Self‐perceived health and quality of life by activity status in community‐dwelling older adults

Abstract: Activity status was associated with self-perceived health status, but not with QoL. This study draws attention to the need of considering the activity of older adults for actions aimed at maintaining and improving their health.

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Health-related quality of life and associated factors in functionally independent older people

Health-related quality of life and associated factors in functionally independent older people

Actividad física y salud autopercibida en personas mayores de 50 años / Physical Activity and Self-Perceived Health among People Aged 50 and Over

Natural outdoor environments and mental and physical health: Relationships and mechanisms

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