The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire: French adult population norms for the physical health, psychological health and social relationship dimensions

Baumann, Cédric; Erpelding, Marie-Line; Régat, S.; Collin, Jean-François; Briançon, Serge

doi:10.1016/j.respe.2009.10.009

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“…Generally, women's self-assessment of their health status is the worst, this being attributed to women's greater awareness of illnesses and symptoms 27 , consequently generating lower QoL for them, in any domain 28 .…”

Section: Results In the Context Of The Wider Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychiatric morbidity and quality of life of primary care attenders in two cities in Brazil

Portugal

Gonçalves

Mari

et al. 2014

J. bras. psiquiatr.

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Objective: To identify the associations among quality of life (QoL), social determinants and psychological distress in primary care in two cities in Brazil. Methods: A cross-sectional study with 1,466 patients from 2009 to 2010. The statistical analysis used the t-test to compare the variables of interest to the study. Results: The prevalence of Common Mental Disorders (CMD3), severe forms of Common Mental Disorders (CMD5), anxiety and depression were 20.5%, 32%, 37% and 25.1% respectively. Thes presence of psychological distress is associated with worse QoL among the patients studied, especially those older than 40 years of age. In cases of CMD3, those with higher income and educational levels presented higher QoL in the psychical and psychological domains. For the cases of probable anxiety, those with higher educational levels presented lower scores on the physical and social relationship scores. Conclusion: Psychological distress can be associated with a worse QoL among those studied and can be influenced by socioeconomic conditions. Therefore, it is important to structure patient-centered help, which should also include patients’ social contexts.

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Section: Results In the Context Of The Wider Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychiatric morbidity and quality of life of primary care attenders in two cities in Brazil

Portugal

Gonçalves

Mari

et al. 2014

J. bras. psiquiatr.

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“…The same happens with the environment domain as it also includes leisure activities, as mentioned previously. Both domains encompass social activities that promote the development of social relationships 17,40 , thus these two components of quality of life improve when social integration is achieved.…”

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Social support network, mental health and quality of life: a cross-sectional study in primary care

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The objective of this study was to identify the association between emotional distress and social support networks with quality of life in primary care patients. This was a cross-sectional study involving 1,466 patients in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2009/2010. The General Health Questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the brief version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument were used. The Social Support Network Index classified patients with the highest and lowest index as socially integrated or isolated. A bivariate analysis and four multiple linear regressions were conducted for each quality of life outcome. The means scores for the physical, psychological, social relations, and environment domains were, respectively, 64.7; 64.2; 68.5 and 49.1. In the multivariate analysis, the psychological domain was negatively associated with isolation, whereas the social relations and environment domains were positively associated with integration. Integration and isolation proved to be important factors for those in emotional distress as they minimize or maximize negative effects on quality of life.

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“…Similar results were reported in other studies (Ferreira & Da Silva Filho, 2011;Ginieri-Coccossis, Theofilou, Synodinou, Tomaras, & Soldatos, 2008;Sathvik, Parthasarathi, Narahari, & Gurudev, 2008;Theofilou, 2011;Yang, Kuo, Wang, Lin, & Su, 2005;Wasserfallen et al, 2004) that evaluated QOL of patients undergoing HD in various countries. What's more, when we compared the results of our study against those of Baumann, Erpelding, Regat, Collin, and Briançon (2010), obtained with a French-speaking healthy population, our patients undergoing HD seemed to enjoy a lower QOL. At the six-month measurement (T3), a significant deterioration in physical health among the patients in our study was observed.…”

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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects of Educational Intervention to Strengthen Humanistic Practice Among Hemodialysis Nurses in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland: A Pilot Study

Delmas

O’Reilly

Iglesias

et al. 2016

International Journal for Human Caring

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A mixed-design pilot study was undertaken to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of an educational intervention based on the theory of human caring delivered to hemodialysis (HD) nurses in Switzerland. Participants were 9 nurses and 22 patients undergoing HD. Results showed that the proposed intervention had a high level of feasibility and acceptability. Following the intervention, participating nurses consolidated their caring attitudes/ behaviours toward patients undergoing HD. The patients, for their part, perceived significant changes in the nurses' caring attitudes/behaviours following the intervention. Further research is needed to examine its effects on a larger population of nurses and patients.

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The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire: French adult population norms for the physical health, psychological health and social relationship dimensions

Cited by 127 publications

References 14 publications

Psychiatric morbidity and quality of life of primary care attenders in two cities in Brazil

Psychiatric morbidity and quality of life of primary care attenders in two cities in Brazil

Social support network, mental health and quality of life: a cross-sectional study in primary care

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects of Educational Intervention to Strengthen Humanistic Practice Among Hemodialysis Nurses in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland: A Pilot Study

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