Evaluation of the Flanagan Quality of Life Scale for older adults

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dc.contributor.authorSouza, Luciana Bronzi de [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorCorrente, José Eduardo [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-01T18:43:43Z
dc.date.available2016-04-01T18:43:43Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractPurpose: to evaluate the Flanagan Quality of Life Scale applied in a representative sample of urban older people population of Botucatu city, São Paulo, Brazil. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out with a representative sample of 365 older people obtained considering a prevalence of 50% of satisfaction with the quality of life, 95% of reliability and an 5% error margin. Descriptive analyzes were initially made for sociodemographic data and associations with quality of life. To obtain the domains of the Flanagan Quality of Life Scale, a factor analysis was running extracting the principal components using the varimax rotation. Results: 361 older people were included and the average age participants was 72.10 (SD= 7.35) years. The majority were female, married with low education level. The income varied from none to 8.253,50 U.S. dollars, approximately. The mean score of the questions of the Flanagan Quality of Life Score was 84.76, indicating a good quality of life. The reliability coefficient Cronbach's α was 0.81, demonstrating the efficiency of the instrument. After a factorial analysis, the domains considered by the older adults as the most important to their quality of life agree with those proposed by Flanagan. Conclusion: The Flanagan Quality of Life Scale as described initially proved to be an efficient and reliable tool to assess the quality of life of older adults.en
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniversidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniversidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 2008/10261-8
dc.format.extent10-20
dc.identifierhttp://www.ijsch.com/journaluk/Volume-no-1-no-4-June-2013
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Science, Commerce and Humanities, v. 1, n. 4, p. 10-20, 2013.
dc.identifier.issn2052-6164
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0001-5478-4996
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/137002
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Science, Commerce and Humanities
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dc.sourceCurrículo Lattes
dc.titleEvaluation of the Flanagan Quality of Life Scale for older adultsen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-5478-4996[2]
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Botucatupt
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências, Botucatupt
unesp.departmentSaúde Públicapt
unesp.departmentBioestatísticapt

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