Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Enfermagem, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2021 Jan 8;29:e3401. doi: 10.1590/1518-8345.4051.3401. eCollection 2021.
to compare the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of the older adults in the community according to the living arrangement and to verify the association between the type of living arrangement and the quality of life scores.
a cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted with 796 older adults in the community. To assess quality of life (dependent variable), network and social support (adjustment variable), validated and applied chi-square tests, descriptive statistical analysis, multiple comparison analysis (ANOVA) and multiple linear regression model (p<0.05) were used.
the older adults who lived only with their spouses had better quality of life scores in all domains and facets, except in the death and dying domain, which did not show any significant difference. The lowest scores for quality of life were identified in the groups with the presence of children and, exceptionally, in the domain of social relationships and, in the facets death and dying and intimacy, those who lived alone had worse assessments. In the adjusted model, there was an association between the type of living arrangement and the different domains and facets of quality of life.
living arrangement was associated with quality of life scores for older adults in the community, even after adjusting for the gender, age, number of morbidities, and social support variables.
根据生活安排比较社区老年人的社会人口学和经济特征，并验证生活安排类型与生活质量评分之间的关联。
这是一项在社区中进行的横断面流行病学研究，共纳入 796 名老年人。为了评估生活质量（因变量），使用网络和社会支持（调整变量），进行了验证和应用卡方检验、描述性统计分析、多重比较分析（方差分析）和多元线性回归模型（p<0.05）。
仅与配偶一起生活的老年人在所有领域和方面的生活质量评分都更好，除了在死亡和濒死领域没有显著差异。生活质量评分最低的是有子女的老年人，特别是在社会关系领域，在独处的老年人中，在死亡和濒死以及亲密关系方面的评估更差。在调整后的模型中，生活安排类型与生活质量的不同领域和方面之间存在关联。
即使在调整了性别、年龄、患病数量和社会支持变量后，生活安排仍与社区老年人的生活质量评分相关。
