Escola Anna Nery (Dec 2010)

Morbidades, capacidade funcional e qualidade de vida de mulheres idosas La morbilidad, la capacidad funcional y calidad de vida de las mujeres mayores Morbidity, functional capacity and quality of life of elderly women

  • Maurícia Brochado Oliveira Soares,
  • Darlene Mara dos Santos Tavares,
  • Flávia Aparecida Dias,
  • Marina Aleixo Diniz,
  • Sônia Geib

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s1414-81452010000400008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 4
pp. 705 – 711

Abstract

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Os objetivos foram comparar entre as faixas etárias: o estado conjugal, a escolaridade, a renda, o número de morbidades e de incapacidade funcional e os escores de qualidade de vida de mulheres idosas. Trata-se de um estudo de base populacional, transversal, realizado com 1.339 mulheres idosas. Utilizaram-se os instrumentos estruturados Older Americans Resources and Services,WHOQOL-BREF e WHOQOL-OLD. Para a comparação entre as variáveis categóricas foi utilizado o teste qui-quadrado e, para as numéricas, ANOVA-F, Bonferroni e Tamhane's de acordo com a homogeneidade das variâncias (pEl objetivo fue comparar entre los grupos de edad: el estado civil, el educacional, el nivel de ingresos, el número de morbilidades y de discapacidad funcional y la calidad de vida de las mujeres de edad avanzada. Se trata de un estudio de base poblacional, transverso, realizado con 1.339 mujeres mayores. Se utilizaron instrumentos estructurados del Older Americans Resources and Services, WHOQOL-BREF y WHOQOL-OLD. Para comparar las variables categóricas se utilizó chi-cuadrado para la prueba numérica, ANOVA-F, Tamhane de Bonferroni y de acuerdo a la homogeneidad de varianzas (p The objectives were to compare between the age groups: marital status, education, income, number of morbidities and functional disability scores of a quality of life from elderly women. This is a population-based study, sectional, applied to 1339 elderly women.We used the Older Americans Resources and Services structured instruments, WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD. To the comparison among the categorical variables we used chi-square for the numerical test, ANOVA-F, Tamhane and Bonferroni's according to the homogeneity of variances (p <0.05). The comparison among groups showed that the higher age, the lower is the educational level and larger number of functional disability. The highest age group was associated to lower scores of quality of life in the physical domain and operational facets of the senses and social participation. It is necessary to analyze the characteristics of elderly women considering the specificities of different ages.

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