Quality of life assessment for health promotion groups.

Objective: to analyze the use of quality of life assessment (QOL) as a strategy to evaluate the work with health promotion groups in the community. Method: cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study. Participants of two elderly groups (n=46) were individually interviewed to fi ll the sociodemographic instruments, WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD. Results: the participants were women with up to 79 years, who did not live with a partner, with up to four years of study, retired, with individual income of up to a minimum salary. The mean scores on the WHOQOL-BREF were higher on “Social Relations” and lower in the “Environment”. For the WHOQOL-OLD, the highest scores were achieved in facets “Social Participation” (G1) and “Past, Present and Future Activities” (G2), while “Death and Dying” facet obtained lower scores in both groups. Conclusion: the assessment of QOL appears to be useful in helping to identify the coordination aspects of life of elderly people that need to be better developed in groups.