Frequency of daily living activities in older adults and their relationship with sociodemographic characteristics: A survey-based study.

Autor:	Briede-Westermeyer JC; Department of Engineering Design, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avda. España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile., Fuentes-Sepúlveda M; Department of Medical Education, Universidad de Concepción, Víctor Lamas 1290, Concepción, Chile., Lazo-Sagredo F; Department of Medical Education, Universidad de Concepción, Víctor Lamas 1290, Concepción, Chile., Molina-Reyes A; Department of Medical Education, Universidad de Concepción, Víctor Lamas 1290, Concepción, Chile., Lagos-Huenuvil V; Department of Medical Education, Universidad de Concepción, Víctor Lamas 1290, Concepción, Chile., Pérez-Villalobos C; Department of Medical Education, Universidad de Concepción, Víctor Lamas 1290, Concepción, Chile.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Heliyon [Heliyon] 2024 Sep 02; Vol. 10 (17), pp. e37303. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 02 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e37303
Abstrakt:	Background: Activities in daily living (ADL) are the fundamental actions people must take to survive, care of themselves, and integrate into their daily environment. Objective: This study has two objectives: 1) to offer a new questionnaire to assess daily living activities frequency and report evidence of their psychometric properties, and 2) to describe how often older adults in a region of Chile perform different types of daily living activities and to identify their relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics. Method: 399 older adults from the Biobío Region, Chile, chosen by quota sampling, were surveyed. They answered the DAF and a sociodemographic questionnaire, after giving their informed consent. For the data analysis, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed and its reliability was assessed using McDonald's Omega. The relationship with the sociodemographic variables was evaluated using non-parametric bivariate statistics. Results: The results of the CFA showed an acceptable fit of the data to the eight-factor model: χ 2 /df = 4.188, CFI >0.915, TLI >0.903, RMSEA <0.089 (0.085-0.094) and SRMR <0.104. Their reliability fluctuated between ω = 0.546 and ω = 0.934. Specific relationships of some DAF factors were found with gender, age, educational level, income, jobs, children, participation in clubs, and perception of health (p < 0.05). Discussion: The results support the validity and reliability of the DAF. Older adults spend more time on personal care or household care activities, and less time on social activities, taking care of their health, or caring for others. The time they dedicate to these activities is associated with the sociodemographic profile of older adults, where there is an important weight of gender and age, and where a greater social capital of older adults helps them maintain a more stimulating life. Competing Interests: Juan Carlos Briede W. and Cristhian Pérez has received a research grant from the Chilean 10.13039/501100002848National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (10.13039/501100002848CONICYT). All other authors declare no competing interests.The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests:Juan Carlos Briede Westermeyer reports financial support was provided by the National Research and Development Agency (10.13039/501100020884ANID) through the Fondecyt Project Nº1201987. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (© 2024 The Authors.)
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