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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
Published on: September 30, 2020
[Health-related quality of life in elderly in a primary care unit]
Alberto González Pedraza-Avilés1, Isabel Vázquez-Navarrete
1Unidad de Posgrado, Departamento de Medicina Familiar, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, México. albemari@correo.unam.mx
Objective:
To know the self-perceived quality of life by elderly patients through two evaluation instruments.
Methods:
A prospective, observational, cross-sectional, and descriptive study. Successful information of 178 elder adults attending medical consultation was obtained with the purpose of evaluating the quality of life, through two validated questionnaires: Nottingham Health Profile and Coop/Wonca charts. The U Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test were used, with a significant level of 0.05.
Results:
The worst statistical quality of life variables in both tests were: women, widow, low studies level and no working. In relation with the coexisting chronic medical conditions for the health profile: diabetes mellitus patients showed a worse quality in all dimensions with statistical significance. As for the charts, cardiac disease patients showed the same situation.
Conclusions:
In both tests, similar data in relation with the factors that condition a poor quality of life were found.
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