EFFECTS OF SEXUALITY ON COMMON MENTAL DISORDERS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN ELDERLY PEOPLE

Autor: Edison Vitório de Souza Júnior, Diego Pires Cruz, Lais Reis Siqueira, Benedito Fernandes da Silva Filho, Gabriel Magalhães Cairo, Lucas Dias Brito Infante, Namie Okino Sawada
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Cogitare Enfermagem, Vol 27, Iss 0 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1414-8536
2176-9133
DOI: 10.5380/ce.v27i0.86919
Popis: Objective: to analyze the effects of sexuality on common mental disorders and quality of life in elderly people. Method: cross-sectional study conducted with 721 elderly people from all regions of Brazil who answered four instruments: bio-sociodemographic, EVASI, SRQ-20 and WHOQOL-Old between July and October 2020. Data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney and Structural Equation Modeling tests adopting a 95% confidence interval. Results: sexuality exerted a strong, positive effect on quality of life (SC=0.778 [95%CI=0.680-0.862] p
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