Quality of life and informal labor among elderly persons in an intermediate Colombian city, 2012-2013
| Autor: | Consuelo Vélez Álvarez, María del Pilar Escobar Potes, María Eugenia Pico Merchán |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Portuguese |
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| Zdroj: | Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia, Vol 19, Iss 3, Pp 415-427 |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1809-9823 1981-2256 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/1809-98232016019.140215 |
| Popis: | Abstract Objective: Describe the quality of life of elderly informal workers in an intermediate Colombian city. Method: A descriptive study of 320 randomly selected informal workers aged older than 18 from Manizales was performed. A sub-sample of 153 people aged older than 50, representing 47.8 percent of the study population, was performed. Two instruments were applied: one testing demographic variables and the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life questionnaire. Univariate and bivariate analyzes were performed using frequency distributions and the chi-squared test was used to identify association between variables. Results: 69.9% of the participants were men, the average age was 59.4 (+7.2) years, 62.0% had no or basic education, 52.0% belonged to social class 1 and 2; 6.5% had no affiliation with the health and social security system. The different dimensions of quality of life were perceived favorably, as was health. More than 50.0% were autonomous, had strong social and family networks, had not experienced negative feelings and found meaning to life. Statistical differences (p |
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