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Quality of Life and Health Status in Middle-aged Presumed Healthy Slovenian Family Practice Attendees

BACKGROUND: There is a gap in our knowledge of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population presumed healthy, so this study aimed to assess the associations between HRQoL, demographics and clinical variables. METHODS: The participants were attendees, presumed healthy, at 40 pre-selected mo...

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Autores principales: Tement, Matic, Selič-Zupančič, Polona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sciendo 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8256772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34249165
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0026
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description BACKGROUND: There is a gap in our knowledge of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population presumed healthy, so this study aimed to assess the associations between HRQoL, demographics and clinical variables. METHODS: The participants were attendees, presumed healthy, at 40 pre-selected model family medicine practices (MFMPs), aged between 30 and 65 years and recruited during a preventive check-up in 2019. Each MFMP pragmatically invited 30 attendees to voluntarily participate. The EQ-5D questionnaire was administered as a measure of HRQoL; the independent variables were demographic characteristics, smoking, alcohol consumption, stress perception, physical activity, signs of depression, cardiovascular risk, body mass index, blood pressure values, and blood sugar and lipidogram laboratory test values. Ordinal logistic regression was used to calculate associations between self-assessed quality of life, demographics, and clinical variables, with P<0.05 set as statistically significant. RESULTS: Of 986 participants, 640 (64.9%) were women and 346 (35.1%) men, aged 42.7±8.6 years. The average values for the EQ-5D-3L were 0.91±0.15. In the multivariate model, a positive association between adequate physical activity (p=0.003), and a negative association between higher age (p<0.001), female gender (p=0.009), signs of depression (p<0.001), stress (p=0.013), and EQ-5D score were identified. CONCLUSION: Given that physical activity was shown to be positively associated with HRQoL, it is of the utmost importance for family physicians to motivate their middle-aged patients, especially women and those with signs of depression and excessive stress, to adopt a more rigorously physically active lifestyle.
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spelling pubmed-82567722021-07-09 Quality of Life and Health Status in Middle-aged Presumed Healthy Slovenian Family Practice Attendees Tement, Matic Selič-Zupančič, Polona Zdr Varst Original Scientific Article BACKGROUND: There is a gap in our knowledge of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population presumed healthy, so this study aimed to assess the associations between HRQoL, demographics and clinical variables. METHODS: The participants were attendees, presumed healthy, at 40 pre-selected model family medicine practices (MFMPs), aged between 30 and 65 years and recruited during a preventive check-up in 2019. Each MFMP pragmatically invited 30 attendees to voluntarily participate. The EQ-5D questionnaire was administered as a measure of HRQoL; the independent variables were demographic characteristics, smoking, alcohol consumption, stress perception, physical activity, signs of depression, cardiovascular risk, body mass index, blood pressure values, and blood sugar and lipidogram laboratory test values. Ordinal logistic regression was used to calculate associations between self-assessed quality of life, demographics, and clinical variables, with P<0.05 set as statistically significant. RESULTS: Of 986 participants, 640 (64.9%) were women and 346 (35.1%) men, aged 42.7±8.6 years. The average values for the EQ-5D-3L were 0.91±0.15. In the multivariate model, a positive association between adequate physical activity (p=0.003), and a negative association between higher age (p<0.001), female gender (p=0.009), signs of depression (p<0.001), stress (p=0.013), and EQ-5D score were identified. CONCLUSION: Given that physical activity was shown to be positively associated with HRQoL, it is of the utmost importance for family physicians to motivate their middle-aged patients, especially women and those with signs of depression and excessive stress, to adopt a more rigorously physically active lifestyle. Sciendo 2021-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8256772/ /pubmed/34249165 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0026 Text en © 2021 National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia, published by Sciendo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
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title_short Quality of Life and Health Status in Middle-aged Presumed Healthy Slovenian Family Practice Attendees
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8256772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34249165
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0026
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