Validity and reliability of the SF-36 in Chilean older adults: the ALEXANDROS study.

To validate short-form-36 health survey (SF-36) with specific scoring algorithm obtained in a large sample of Chilean older people and to associate quality of life in this sample with social and health related factors. A cross-sectional study on 2,143 community-living subjects aged 60-92 years (33 %...

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Publicado en:European Journal of Ageing Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 127 - 135
Autores principales: Lera, Lydia, Fuentes-García, Alejandra, Sánchez, Hugo, Albala, Cecilia
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2013
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          Lera, Lydia
          Fuentes-García, Alejandra
          Sánchez, Hugo
          Albala, Cecilia
        affil: Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, Santiago Chile
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        Anthropometry
        Epidemiology
        Health behavior
        Life expectancy
        Quality of life
        Activities of daily living
        Cross-sectional method
        Algorithms
        Chi-squared test
        Confidence intervals
        Statistical correlation
        Factor analysis
        Health surveys
        Questionnaires
        Research funding
        Scale analysis (Psychology)
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        U-statistics
        Logistic regression analysis
        Data analysis
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          Anthropometry
          Epidemiology
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          Quality of life
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          Confidence intervals
          Statistical correlation
          Factor analysis
          Health surveys
          Questionnaires
          Research funding
          Scale analysis (Psychology)
          Statistics
          U-statistics
          Logistic regression analysis
          Data analysis
          Research methodology evaluation
          Data analysis software
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        Health-related quality of life
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        SF-36 health survey
        Health-related quality of life
        Older people
        SF-36 health survey
      ab: To validate short-form-36 health survey (SF-36) with specific scoring algorithm obtained in a large sample of Chilean older people and to associate quality of life in this sample with social and health related factors. A cross-sectional study on 2,143 community-living subjects aged 60-92 years (33 % men and 67 % women) conducted in Santiago, Chile. Scores in 8 scales of SF-36-physical function (PF), role physical (RP), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH), vitality (VT), social functioning (SF), role emotional (RE) and mental health (MH)-, were calculated. Factor analysis was used to extract two principal factors and logistic regression model was applied to estimate its association with socio-demographic and health variables. The internal consistency of scales was high (Cronbach's alpha 0.86-0.87). Factor analysis retained two factors: mental (MCS) and physical (PCS) components accounting for 65.3 % of total variance (55.3 and 10.0 % respectively). High correlations (0.61-0.94) between MCS and MH, V, RE and SF were obtained. PCS correlated highest (0.72-0.86) with RP, PF and BP. Self-perceived symptoms of depression (GDS-15 ≥5) was the main variable explaining low scores in both MCS and PCS (adjusted OR = 26.9; 95 % CI: 15.3-47.2; OR = 3.4; 95 % CI: 2.1-5.5, respectively). We have demonstrated the reliability and validity of SF-36 questionnaire to evaluate health related quality of life, reporting Chilean-Specific factor score coefficients for MCS and PCS based in national Chilean means and standard deviations for older people. After adjusting by age and gender, the main predictors of low health related QoL in Chilean older people were self-perceived symptoms of depression, the presence of two or more chronic diseases and illiteracy. Important gender inequalities were observed in all of these results, being consistently less favorable in women than in men.
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