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- Title
EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF LIVING OF ELDERLY WITH DIABETES MELLITUS.
- Authors
de Lima Sardinha, Ana Hélia; Medeiros Verzaro, Pabline; Nogueira Costa, Larissa Di Leo; Fontineli Murici, Aline Fernanda; Silva Falcão, Bruna Caroline
- Abstract
Objective: to evaluate the quality of life in elderly women with diabetes mellitus. Method: quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. Data were collected using the WHOQOL - Bref instrument, according to the physical, psychological, social and environmental domains. It involved 146 elderly women. Data were analyzed in the EPIINFO 7.1.4, Microsoft Excel 2010 and SPSS programs. Results: most of the scores for quality of life obtained a mean value for unsatisfactory, mainly in the environmental domain. The facets of the most impaired domains were: drug dependence and treatment (49,32) for the physical domain; positive feelings (44,18) for the psychological domain; (32,53) for the domain of social relations and health care (34,25) for the environmental domain. Conclusion: aging accompanied by diabetes mellitus brings increasing risk to women in terms of health, functionality, protection and social integration.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; QUALITY of life; PEOPLE with diabetes; HEALTH status indicators; RESEARCH methodology; MENTAL health; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALE analysis (Psychology); TRANSLATIONS; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; OLD age
- Publication
Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 2, p345
- ISSN
1981-8963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5205/1981-8963-v12i2a23164p345-356-2018