Quality of life in Brazil: normative values for the Whoqol-bref in a southern general population sample
Quality of life in Brazil: normative values for the Whoqol-bref in a southern general population sample
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DOI：
10.1007/s11136-011-9845-3
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发表时间：
2011-09-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Fleck, Marcelo P.
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作者：
Cruz, Luciane N.;Polanczyk, Carisi A.;Fleck, Marcelo P.
WHOQOL-bref的规范性数据在文献中很少，在拉丁美洲国家也无法获得。本研究的主要目的是提供规范的WHOQOL-bref在巴西的一般人群样本的分数，并根据一些社会人口学特征描述平均分数的差异。方法WHOQOL-bref适用于随机选择的样本的一般人群的波尔图阿莱格雷。参加者是年龄在20至64岁之间的识字者。问卷是自我管理的受访者的home.Results的回答率为68%，最后的样本包含751名受访者（38%的男性，62%的女性）的存在下的采访者。在以下亚组中观察到低生活质量：女性、低经济阶层、低教育水平和报告慢性疾病的亚组。WHOQOL-bref的平均分数和分数的平均值被报告为normal data for the general population.Conclusion我们的研究结果可以被用于研究人员使用WHOQOL-bref从随机选择的样本的一般人群的正常数据比较他们的结果。此外，WHOQOL-bref能够区分不同的人口亚群，使其成为流行病学调查中确定弱势群体的重要工具。
Purpose Normative data for WHOQOL-bref are scarce in the literature and unavailable in Latin American countries. The main objective of this study was to provide normative scores of WHOQOL-bref in a general population sample in Brazil and to describe differences in mean scores according to some socio-demographic characteristics.Methods WHOQOL-bref was applied to a randomly selected sample of the general population of Porto Alegre. Participants were literate people aged 20 to 64 years. The questionnaires were self-administered in the presence of an interviewer in the respondent's home.Results The response rate was 68%, and the final sample contained 751 respondents (38% men, 62% women). Low quality of life was observed in the following subgroups: female gender, lower economic class, lower educational level, and the subgroup reporting a chronic medical condition. The mean scores of the WHOQOL-bref and percentiles of scores are reported as normative data for the general population.Conclusion Our results can be useful to researchers using the WHOQOL-bref to compare their results with normative data from a randomly selected sample of general population. Additionally, the ability of WHOQOL-bref to discriminate different population subgroups makes it an important tool to identify vulnerable groups in epidemiological surveys.