PERCEPTIONS OF THE GENERAL, ORAL AND VISUAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY THAT ATTEND THE DENTAL CLINICS OF THE SANTO TOMAS UNIVERSITY, FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE
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https://doi.org/10.15332/us.v6i2.1805Keywords:
Perceptions of health, Quality of life, ElderlyAbstract
Objective: To determine the perceptions of the elderly health and factors that influences their quality of life.
Material and Methods: A descriptive study was done to analyze the relationship of the perception of health with sociodemographics,general health, chronic illnesses as well as oral and visual factors, necessity of treatment self perception and clinically perceived and last medical visit variables. Non parametric tests were applied; the possible associations among variables measures in nominal and ordinal scale were evaluated applying the test of X2 and exact test of Fisher. The whole analysis considers a significant level p = 0.05,the database was elaborates in Excel and the definitive analysis in STATA 6.0.
Results: The population was composed by 46 males and 60 women with mean age of 68.6 years-old. Sixty six individuals have a positive perception of its general health and forty eight have changed activities for blame of it. The negative perception of their visual health was found in 56 (54.3) and their quality of life has been affected by their visual health on the average 3.7. The quality of life has been affected by its oral health in 3.6 on the average being negative this perception. It was evidenced that the factor that more affects the quality of life is leaving activities, leaving some foods and visual with P=0.0001.
Conclusions: The condition that affects the quality of life more is to have to leave activities by general, oral and visual health as much. The perceptions were more negative in the female.
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