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2/2016
vol. 2
 
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Assessment of quality of life among participants of PURE Poland study

Katarzyna Połtyn-Zaradna
1
,
Jakub Einhorn
1
,
Dagmara G. Dąbrowska
1
,
Alicja Basiak
1
,
Maria Wołyniec
1
,
Andrzej Szuba
2, 3
,
Katarzyna Zatońska
1

  1. Department of Social Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
  2. Division of Angiology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
  3. Department of Internal Medicine, 4th Military Hospital in Wroclaw, Poland
J Health Inequal 2016; 2 (2): 163–171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/jhi.2016.65358
Online publish date: 2016/12/30
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Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life of participants enrolled in PURE Poland study.

Material and methods: Anonymous survey of quality of life was carried out between 2007 and 2010 as an additional study among population of Lower Silesia in Poland enrolled in PURE Poland study. Survey covered 1053 people of PURE Poland study population, who agreed to complete the survey. Three age groups were distinguished. The research was conducted with use of international quality of life questionnaire WHOQOL–BREF. Data was analyzed in respect to gender, age, civil status, level of education, and current sense of being diseased or diseased free.

Results: The majority of respondents assessed their subjective quality of life (S-QoL) as good or very good. Males assessed S-QoL significantly higher than females, married people evaluated it higher than people living alone, people with higher education rated it higher than people with primary education. Respondents showed highest results in physical domain of quality of life and lowest in the environment domain of quality of life. The S-QoL was correlated with all domains but mostly with psychological domain of quality of life.

Conclusions: Quality of life of the majority of respondents was good or very good. Further research should be conducted with the use of a set of different epidemiological variables (social, institutional, and general environment) and tests, and obtained results could become a base for constructing a model of self-assessed quality of life by the citizens of Wroclaw.
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quality of life, PURE study, adults
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