Health-Related Quality of Life of Older Adults in Costa Rica as Measured by the Short-Form-36 Health Survey.
| Autor: | Valdivieso-Mora E; University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.; Universidad Centroamericana, San Salvador, El Salvador., Ivanisevic M; University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA., Shaw LA; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA., Garnier-Villarreal M; Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA., Green ZD; University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA., Salazar-Villanea M; University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica., Moncada-Jiménez J; University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica., Johnson DK; University of California at Davis, Walnut Creek, CA, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Gerontology & geriatric medicine [Gerontol Geriatr Med] 2018 Jul 20; Vol. 4, pp. 2333721418782812. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jul 20 (Print Publication: 2018). |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2333721418782812 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To test the validity of a common measure of health-related quality of life (Short-Form-36 [SF-36]) in cognitively healthy older adults living in rural and urban Costa Rica. Method: Confirmatory factor analysis was applied to SF-36 data collected in 250 older adults from San Jose and Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Results: The best fitting model for the SF-36 was an eight first-order factor structure. A high correlation between the Mental Component Summary and Physical Component Summary scores was found. Region differences indicated that rural dwellers perceive a poorer health-related quality of life compared with the urban group. Discussion: Costa Rican older adults perceived health as a unidimensional construct. Age and urbanity of older adult Costa Ricans should be appreciated when trying to measure self-reported physical and mental health. Cultural context of the individuals should be considered when studying health-related quality of life. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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