O objetivo foi analisar a associação da prática de dança e ginástica com percepção qualidade vida seus domínios em um grupo idosas Curitiba/PR, Brasil. Participara do estudo 219 idosas, divididas grupos, sendo: não praticantes atividade física, ginástica. Estudo transversal verificando por meio regressão linear múltipla. Foram aplicados os instrumentos WHOQOL-BREF WHOQOL-OLD para avaliar vida. ...

Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) affects the quality of life (QoL) and has a negative psychological impact on patients. We sought to investigate frequency anxiety depression in AGA patients explore their relationship with patients’ QoL. This cross-sectional survey enrolled 192 participants AGA. Hairdex, World Health Organization Quality Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF), dermatology index (DLQI) instrumen...

background: the whoqol-bref is one of the best-known instruments that have been developed for cross-cultural compari­sons of quality of life and currently it is available in more than 40 languages. current study was done to provide: (1) the psychometrics properties of the iranian version of whoqol-bref and (2) the norm scores for satisfaction with life over­all and satisfaction with specific li...

Issues concerning the application of psychiatric measures across cultures are discussed in the light of the authors experiences with the Geriatric Mental State (GMS) and the WHO Quality of Life Instrument (WHOQOL). The aceptability of the GMS to non - literate populations are examined in the context of culture, age ascertainment, education and cognition and variances between the GMS - psychiatr...

OBJECTIVES Exploring the conditions that allow satisfactory quality of life in old age is an issue of scientific and social relevance. Thus, the objective of the study was to describe a quality of life assessment method for the elderly and present the results from focus groups conducted among old people in good health and ill health, as well as their caregivers. METHODS The methodology used i...

BACKGROUND There is a need for short, specific instruments that assess quality of life (QOL) adequately in the older adult population. The aims of the present study were to obtain evidence on the validity of the inferences that could be drawn from an instrument to measure QOL in the aging population (people 50+ years old), and to test its psychometric properties. METHODS The instrument, WHOQO...