Quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home
Background/Aim. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified four broad domains as being universally relevant to the quality of life, namely physical, and psychological health, social relationships, and environment. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between sociodemogra...
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| author | Čanković Sonja Nikolić-Ač Eržebet Jovanović Mijatović Vesna Kvrgić Svetlana Harhaji Sanja Radić Ivana |
| author_facet | Čanković Sonja Nikolić-Ač Eržebet Jovanović Mijatović Vesna Kvrgić Svetlana Harhaji Sanja Radić Ivana |
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| description | Background/Aim. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified four broad
domains as being universally relevant to the quality of life, namely
physical, and psychological health, social relationships, and environment.
The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between sociodemographic
characteristics and quality of life of old people. Methods. The World Health
Organization Quality of Life BREF questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) was used to
assess quality of life on a random sample of 200 people aged 60 years and
over who lived in the Retirement Home in Novi Sad. Items within the
questionnaire were organized into four domains: physical, psychological,
social relationships and environment. Results. The majority of the
participants were women (69.8%). The mean age was 79.2 years (SD = 6.6
years). Most of them were widowed (73.4%). More than two thirds of
participants (68.8%) reported that they were ill at that moment and almost
half of them (48.8%) had cardiovascular, 18.5% musculoskeletal, 9.6%
endocrine and 5.9% neurological disease. In the social relations domain
scores were lower in males (t = 2.4; p = 0.017). Scores of other domains did
not differ significantly with regard to the age, educational level and the
marital status of the participants. Participants who reported the presence of
a disease had significantly lower mean scores of physical, psychological and
environment domain. Conclusion. The presence of disease is a relevant factor
for quality of life, whereas age, education and marital status do not reflect
on physical health, psychological and environmental domain of quality of
life. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9b5e8cfbce61452ea5bc5e826a07809d2025-08-20T02:20:26ZengMinistry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia, University of Defence, BelgradeVojnosanitetski Pregled0042-84502406-07202016-01-01731424610.2298/VSP131205126C0042-84501500126CQuality of life of elderly people living in a retirement homeČanković Sonja0Nikolić-Ač Eržebet1Jovanović Mijatović Vesna2Kvrgić Svetlana3Harhaji Sanja4Radić Ivana5Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Novi Sad + Faculty of Medicine, Novi SadInstitute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Novi Sad + Faculty of Medicine, Novi SadInstitute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Novi Sad + Faculty of Medicine, Novi SadInstitute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Novi Sad + Faculty of Medicine, Novi SadInstitute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Novi Sad + Faculty of Medicine, Novi SadInstitute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Novi Sad + Faculty of Medicine, Novi SadBackground/Aim. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified four broad domains as being universally relevant to the quality of life, namely physical, and psychological health, social relationships, and environment. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and quality of life of old people. Methods. The World Health Organization Quality of Life BREF questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) was used to assess quality of life on a random sample of 200 people aged 60 years and over who lived in the Retirement Home in Novi Sad. Items within the questionnaire were organized into four domains: physical, psychological, social relationships and environment. Results. The majority of the participants were women (69.8%). The mean age was 79.2 years (SD = 6.6 years). Most of them were widowed (73.4%). More than two thirds of participants (68.8%) reported that they were ill at that moment and almost half of them (48.8%) had cardiovascular, 18.5% musculoskeletal, 9.6% endocrine and 5.9% neurological disease. In the social relations domain scores were lower in males (t = 2.4; p = 0.017). Scores of other domains did not differ significantly with regard to the age, educational level and the marital status of the participants. Participants who reported the presence of a disease had significantly lower mean scores of physical, psychological and environment domain. Conclusion. The presence of disease is a relevant factor for quality of life, whereas age, education and marital status do not reflect on physical health, psychological and environmental domain of quality of life.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0042-8450/2016/0042-84501500126C.pdfagedhomes for the agedquality of lifequestionnairesserbia |
| spellingShingle | Čanković Sonja Nikolić-Ač Eržebet Jovanović Mijatović Vesna Kvrgić Svetlana Harhaji Sanja Radić Ivana Quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home Vojnosanitetski Pregled aged homes for the aged quality of life questionnaires serbia |
| title | Quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home |
| title_full | Quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home |
| title_fullStr | Quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home |
| title_short | Quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home |
| title_sort | quality of life of elderly people living in a retirement home |
| topic | aged homes for the aged quality of life questionnaires serbia |
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