Objetivo: analisar a qualidade de vida idosos integrantes um centro convivência mediante aplicação das escalas World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) -bref e WHOQOL-OLD. Método: trata-se estudo descritivo inferencial, abordagem quantitativa, com 58 atendimento pela equipe multiprofissional. Para obtenção dos dados foram utilizados sociodemográficos as WHOQOL-bref Resultados: maior m...

Objetivo: Analisar a qualidade de vida no trabalho na percepção profissionais enfermagem que atuam Estratégia Saúde da Família. Métodos: Trata-se um estudo exploratório e descritivo, realizado agosto setembro 2021, cuja amostra foi constituída por 24 atuantes Família em uma cidade interior do estado São Paulo, Brasil. Para coleta dos dados utilizou-se ficha para caracterização participantes o Q...

INTRODUCTION A significant proportion of the global burden of disease has been attributed to mental and behavioural disorders. People with mental disorders (MDs) have lower levels of health-related quality of life than those without MDs. Several studies have shown that in low-resource countries, a range of social determinants including poor health literacy is critical in the epidemiological tra...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychometric properties of the 12-item Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Short-Form Health Status Survey (SF-12) (Hebrew version) in a large primary care patient sample in Israel. SUBJECTS The sample comprised 3631 adult primary care patients who were screened for depression in a longitudinal design. MEASURES SF-12 yielding two scores: the Physical Component Summary (PC...

OBJECTIVE This pilot study investigated the effects of multiple training modalities on cognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregivers' burden, and quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). PATIENTS AND METHODS This intervention study was conducted in 24 patients with AD aged ≥65 years with a Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) score of 0.5-1. The patients were assigned to receiv...

INTRODUCTION Acceptance of illness plays a key role, allowing the patient to adapt to the disease and its treatment, and to maintain their health-related quality of life (HRQOL) despite chronic conditions. AIM The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between severity of arrhythmia symptoms, acceptance of illness and HRQOL in patients with atrial fibrillation. METHODS The study in...

A series of experiments on speaker-independent phone recognition of continuous speech have been carried out using the recently recorded BREF corpus. These experiments are the first to use this large corpus, and are meant to provide a baseline performance evaluation for vocabulary-independent phone recognition of French. The HMM-based recognizer was trained with hand-verified data from 43 speake...