Health-Related Quality of Life of Older Adults in Costa Rica as Measured by the Short-Form-36 Health Survey
| Autor: | Esmeralda Valdivieso-Mora MA, Mirjana Ivanisevic MA, Leslie A. Shaw PhD, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal PhD, Zachary D. Green BSc, Mónica Salazar-Villanea PhD, José Moncada-Jiménez PhD, David K. Johnson PhD |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2333-7214 23337214 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2333721418782812 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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