Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANNA CAROLYNA VIEIRA CAVALCANTE

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANNA CAROLYNA VIEIRA CAVALCANTE
DATE: 25/08/2022
TIME: 19:00
LOCAL: Departamento de Enfermagem (Excepcionalmente Presencial)
TITLE:

PHYSICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE FACE OF DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY IN THE COMMUNITY: A CROSS-SECTIONAL ASSOCIATION STUDY IN BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL

KEY WORDS:

Aged; Quality of Life; Physical Conditioning; Functional Status; Depression; Primary Health Care.

PAGES: 26
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Objective: to analyze the association of depression levels with aspects of Quality of Life (QoL) in elderly users of Primary Health Care (PHC) in Brazil and Portugal. Methods: cross-sectional study, carried out with elderly people from PHC in Brazil and Portugal, between 2017 and 2018. We obtained a non-probabilistic sample of participants, selected for convenience. The Medical Outcomes Short-Form Health QoL (SF-36) instrument was used to measure QOL and the Beck Inventory to assess depression. We regrouped the variables of depression levels into “Absent/Mild” and “Moderate/Severe” and tested their association with the categorical variables of QOL (“Better QoL” and “Worst QoL). Results: the total sample consisted of 150 participants (Brazil n= 100 and Portugal n= 50). In the association analysis between the variables of each group (Brazil and Portugal), we identified, in the Absent/Mild depression subcategory (n=129), the prediction for Better QoL in Portugal in the Functional Aspect domains (p-value =0.027/OR= 2.768), Physical Aspect (p-value <0.001/ OR= 5.864) and in the Physical Health dimension (p-value =0.002/ OR= 3.752). The binary logistic regression analysis highlighted the Physical Aspect domain, with R²=0.165 (p-value <0.001) and the Physical Health dimension, with R²=0.109 (p-value= 0.002). Conclusions: we concluded that there was an association between better assessments of the physical and functional aspects of QoL with lower levels of depression, in which the components related to physical health and functionality stood out. Portugal presented better QOL assessments compared to Brazil.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 347027 - EULALIA MARIA CHAVES MAIA
Externo ao Programa - 396864 - FRANCISCO ARNOLDO NUNES DE MIRANDA - UFRNExterna à Instituição - MARIA LAURÊNCIA GEMITO - UE