is successful aging the same as quality of life

... the health of older adults has identified emerging public health issues that need to be addressed, such as the following: •  ddress end -of- life issues What most people want at the A end of their ... spending will increase 25% by 2030, largely because of the aging population Critical Opportunities to Improve Older Adults’ Health and Quality of Life Our increased understanding of the critical factors ... Chronic diseases disproportionately affect older adults and are associated with disability, diminished quality of life, and increased costs for health care and long-term care Today, about 80% of older...

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... diagnosis of depressive disorder can be assessed with the BDI Other variables used in the analysis of data were as follows As part of the assessment, the participants filled in items concerning their ... for analysis of the stratified data using survey-weighted generalized linear models We wanted to know whether there was any association of the health-related quality of life with the seasonal changes ... ranging from to 55 The modified questionnaire was thereafter applied for the case-finding definition using the cut-point of (the scores of to assigned as low and those of 10 to 55 as high) Higher...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... lesions was also assessed, using the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) [31] The PASI is a composite score used to evaluate the severity of psoriatic lesions by assessing the extent of skin ... damage The Disease Activity Score (DAS) [23] was used to evaluate disease activity in patients with RA and peripheral PsA and the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity index (BASDAI) [24] was ... patients with AS and axial PsA DAS has been developed to provide a measure of RA disease activity that is more informative than the several disease activity variables individually [23] The DAS combines...

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... condition on their HRQL or where the child is too ill or young to provide their own report Background The measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is increasingly becoming part of the overall ... version of the questionnaires (based on the 12–18 year age group) was used as the basis for the development of the parent form (MMQL-UK (PF)) This measured the components of physical appearance, school ... the looked after children group as the proxy form was completed by the carer as opposed to the parents as in the other exemplar groups All the groups showed similar correlations and as such the...

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... normal distribution is likely to be necessary [16] The interested reader is referred to the helpful papers by Maas & Hox [29,30] for the consequences of the violation of this assumption Another ... design of the study and quality of life data collection Henian Chen analyzed the data, interpreted the findings, and drafted the article Patricia Cohen supervised the data analysis and assisted ... noitprint; tains the name of the dependent variable, in this case HEALTH The right-hand side contains a list of the fixedeffect variables (predictors) The intercept is contained in all models This unconditional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... COPD The use of oxygen therapy was associated with a significant reduction of the quality of life, in both PCS-12 and MCS-12 Table shows the distribution of the mean scores of both parameters based ... COPD It is the most common reason for medical visits, hospital admissions, and death in these patients [38] Furthermore, there is an increasing evidence of the impact of these events on the health ... that the visits to emergency rooms and hospital admissions for acute worsening of the disease in the last year influence significantly the quality of life of patients with COPD, affecting both the...

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... dictates the nature and extent of the disability that they cause The disability caused by MD impacts upon quality of life The Individualised Neuromuscular Quality of Life (INQoL) questionnaire is a ... fact materialise The impact of muscle disease on Activities was the same for UK and US despite the longer duration of disability access legislation in the US and the higher proportion of spacious ... Validation of the Individualised Neuromuscular Quality Of Life for the USA with comparison of the impact of muscle disease on those living in USA versus UK Reza Sadjadi, 1Kelly A Vincent, 2Alison J...

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:71 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/71 Page of Table Multivariate analysis of the association of LEs and HRQoL, by life event typologies Type of life events ... Coddington RD: The significance of life events as etiologic factors in the diseases of children II A study of a normal population J Psychosom Res 1972, 16:205-213 Coddington RD: The signifance of life ... response category was included in each item of the PDS to determine whether development had been completed before the baseline assessment The menarche item was scored if the girl was pre-menarche...

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... Analysis Descriptive statistics were used to describe the study population The measures of PA and health-related Page of quality of life variables were not normally distributed therefore the median ... daily PA, leisure and recreation activities The strongest association between PA as assessed by the accelerometers was found with the distance walked in the 6MWT In contrast, the amount of PA according ... as assessed by the PASIPD (left) and the Accelerometer (right) to the Physical Composite Score of the SF-36 comparison, the median (IQR) activity level as measured with Actical accelerometers of...

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... methodological issues in the development of quality of life measures for the evaluation of medical interventions J Eval Clin Pract 1996, 2:181-191 31 Fayers P, Fayers D: Quality of life assessment, analysis ... Not Otherwise Specified; EDQLS: Eating Disorder Quality of Life Scale; EDs: Eating Disorders; GLM: Generalized Linear Model(s); NHP: Nottingham Health Profile; QoL: Quality of Life; Qoli: Quality ... indicated that the significance level was attributable to the pair-wise comparisons of each level with the ‘much better’ level at at least the 05 level To provide an indication of the amount of scale...

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... determination was guided by the estimation of the utility function according to which a large number of patients is needed to maximise the precision and reduce the risk of measurement error To this end, ... scales we used the unweighted scores In both cases, the higher the scores, the better the HRQoL, and vice versa (2) The Spanish version of the TOOL questionnaire The full items of the TOOL questionnaire ... antipsychotic drugs [4,18] The aim of the present study was to evaluate the linguistic adaptation and psychometric validation into Spanish of the TOOL questionnaire for the assessment of side effects in...

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... results even though the duration of their therapy program was only weeks This raises the question whether the duration of the IOPP could be decreased Costs are an important factor of pain intervention ... in Table The force of the upper arms remained stable, those of the thigh muscles, as measured by flexion of the knee (M quadriceps), decreased during the treatment However, after months of follow-up, ... at the end of the program (post), as well as (fup1), (fup2) and 12 months (fup3) after completion of the program This comprised of the SF-36 [18], health-related questionnaire (HADS-D, [11]), the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:20

... measures of disability caused by cardiovascular disease such as actual walking distance or pain, as well as measures of anxiety and/or depression may add to the understanding of the impact of ... The use of the SF-36, a generic HRQoL measure rather than a CVC specific measure, was felt justified as PXE is a connective tissue disease leading to a broad range of complications such as disfiguring ... general disability Use of Rasch analysis is appropriate for smaller sample sizes as the response patterns on which the analysis is based are not as easily skewed as raw scores generated by classical...

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... category of the SS-QOL for the patients of this study Because the focus of the rehabilitation used in the current study was on the functional recovery of the paretic arm, it is also possible that the ... distribution-based and the anchor-based approaches were both used to determine the CIDs of the subscales of the SS-QOL The distribution-based CID estimate was determined using the between-participant baseline ... score of 10% on the 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS) of quality of sleep [44], 11% on the 100-point Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) [45], and 15% on the 100-mm VAS of back...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... incommensurable with the valuation of the duration of the quality improvement, i.e quality and quantity of Page of 11 life cannot be measured on the same metric Eight of the studies assessed HRQL using generic ... that the question of perspective needs further investigation In the next phase of this study, we will therefore compare the experts assessment of HRQL presented in this study with those of the ... after reassessment [12] While the studies referred to above present preference based HRQL weights on a [0-1] scale that enables quality of life to be measured in the same metric as quantity of life, ...

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... illuminate the state of political and economic forces that influence the quality of life of women in Canada and elsewhere A number of indicators from the HDR [26] map onto this quality of life theme The ... volume has provided snapshots of the effects of increasing privatisation of health and home care on the quality of life of women in each section of Canada [75] It concluded that increasing privatisation ... approaches to the formulation of health policy [8,9] This is especially the case in the Scandinavian nations In this paper, we consider the extent to which these quality of life issues are supported...

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... between quality of life data, or some aspects of quality of life measures, and the duration of survival in cancer patients Pre-treatment (baseline) quality of life data appeared to provide the most ... (iii) quality of life data are markers of patients' behaviour because they relate to diagnosis, treatment and subsequent outcomes of the disease; and (iv) quality of life data are markers of individual ... to clinical measures, quality of life data are predictive of survival duration This hypothesis needs further assessment In future studies on the relationship between quality of life data and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... promoting quality of life in older adults The data were collected by Statistics Canada under the authority of the Statistics Act Access to the data was granted by Statistics Canada based on a ... Canada Classification of chronic conditions The respondents were asked to indicate whether they had a disease or another health condition diagnosed by a health professional that had lasted, or was ... examine the mediating effects of leisure-time physical activity independently for specific HUI3 attributes The fit of the logistic models was assessed based on the likelihood ratio chi- Page of 11...

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