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A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder

BACKGROUND: Considering the lack of studies that examine built environmental factors associated with life satisfaction among old people in developing countries, particularly those focused on Brazil, the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of life satisfaction among old adults residents...

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Autores principales: Teixeira Vaz, Camila, de Souza Andrade, Amanda Cristina, Proietti, Fernando Augusto, Coelho Xavier, César, de Lima Friche, Amélia Augusta, Teixeira Caiaffa, Waleska
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31269940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7228-9
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author Teixeira Vaz, Camila
de Souza Andrade, Amanda Cristina
Proietti, Fernando Augusto
Coelho Xavier, César
de Lima Friche, Amélia Augusta
Teixeira Caiaffa, Waleska
author_facet Teixeira Vaz, Camila
de Souza Andrade, Amanda Cristina
Proietti, Fernando Augusto
Coelho Xavier, César
de Lima Friche, Amélia Augusta
Teixeira Caiaffa, Waleska
author_sort Teixeira Vaz, Camila
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description BACKGROUND: Considering the lack of studies that examine built environmental factors associated with life satisfaction among old people in developing countries, particularly those focused on Brazil, the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of life satisfaction among old adults residents in a Brazilian urban center and to investigate its association with individual characteristics and objective measures of the built environment. METHODS: A household survey (N = 832) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (2008–2009) and a Systematic Social Observation (SSO) was used in this study. Life satisfaction was assessed through Self-Anchoring Ladder Scale, developed by Cantril, in 1965. Participants’ answers were categorized as satisfied (rungs 6–10) and dissatisfied (rungs 0–5). A Multilevel Poisson regression analysis with robust variance was performed. RESULTS: The prevalence of satisfaction with life was approximately 82%. Higher prevalence of life satisfaction was significantly associated with old people who reported higher incomes, higher religious participation, who practice physical activity and who perceive their health as good and very good. In contextual level, results showed that when the contextual features were adjusted separately by the individual characteristics they were no longer significant. The results also showed a lower prevalence of life satisfaction among those living in neighborhoods with higher physical disorder, even after adjusting for individual and other contextual characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: The present findings suggest that life satisfaction should be assessed whenever evaluating urban redevelopment programs designed to improve neighborhood characteristics, reducing physical disorder, especially among old adults.
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spelling pubmed-66075212019-07-12 A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder Teixeira Vaz, Camila de Souza Andrade, Amanda Cristina Proietti, Fernando Augusto Coelho Xavier, César de Lima Friche, Amélia Augusta Teixeira Caiaffa, Waleska BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Considering the lack of studies that examine built environmental factors associated with life satisfaction among old people in developing countries, particularly those focused on Brazil, the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of life satisfaction among old adults residents in a Brazilian urban center and to investigate its association with individual characteristics and objective measures of the built environment. METHODS: A household survey (N = 832) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (2008–2009) and a Systematic Social Observation (SSO) was used in this study. Life satisfaction was assessed through Self-Anchoring Ladder Scale, developed by Cantril, in 1965. Participants’ answers were categorized as satisfied (rungs 6–10) and dissatisfied (rungs 0–5). A Multilevel Poisson regression analysis with robust variance was performed. RESULTS: The prevalence of satisfaction with life was approximately 82%. Higher prevalence of life satisfaction was significantly associated with old people who reported higher incomes, higher religious participation, who practice physical activity and who perceive their health as good and very good. In contextual level, results showed that when the contextual features were adjusted separately by the individual characteristics they were no longer significant. The results also showed a lower prevalence of life satisfaction among those living in neighborhoods with higher physical disorder, even after adjusting for individual and other contextual characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: The present findings suggest that life satisfaction should be assessed whenever evaluating urban redevelopment programs designed to improve neighborhood characteristics, reducing physical disorder, especially among old adults. BioMed Central 2019-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6607521/ /pubmed/31269940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7228-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Teixeira Vaz, Camila
de Souza Andrade, Amanda Cristina
Proietti, Fernando Augusto
Coelho Xavier, César
de Lima Friche, Amélia Augusta
Teixeira Caiaffa, Waleska
A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder
title A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder
title_full A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder
title_fullStr A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder
title_full_unstemmed A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder
title_short A multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder
title_sort multilevel model of life satisfaction among old people: individual characteristics and neighborhood physical disorder
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31269940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7228-9
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