Validation of a Life Experience Scale of Older Adults from community clubs
Introduction: community clubs are a participatory care model that responds to various needs of older people, whose purpose is to promote the continuity of their participation within society with the development of activities to maintain a quality of life through active aging. and with success. Obj...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Guantánamo
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Información Científica |
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| Online Access: | https://revinfcientifica.sld.cu/index.php/ric/article/view/4686 |
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| Summary: | Introduction: community clubs are a participatory care model that responds to various needs of older people, whose purpose is to promote the continuity of their participation within society with the development of activities to maintain a quality of life through active aging. and with success.
Objective: to validate a life experience scale in older adults who attend community clubs attached to the Metropolitan Center for the Elderly (CEMAN) in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
Method: 120 older adults aged 60 and over participated. A scale of 54 questions distributed in four dimensions was designed: participation, sense of belonging, social networks and meaning of life. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient calculation method was used. To analyze the validity of the questionnaire, an exploratory factor analysis of each item was carried out.
Results: with the analysis of the matrix of rotated components, eight questions that were not feasible were eliminated because they had a value less than 0.5, leaving a total of 46 items. The scale as a whole showed a reliability of œ=0.96, showing a high level of agreement with this study population.
Conclusion: the scale allowed us to record the life experiences of older adult members of a community club in relation to their family, social, emotional and leisure activities that they were losing during the aging process, it was recorded how they compensate for the activities they have lost. to feel integrated into society, which favors their quality of life. |
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| ISSN: | 1028-9933 |