Authors: Luciane N Cruz Carisi A Polanczyk Suzi A Camey Juliana F Hoffmann Marcelo P Fleck
Publish Date: 2011/01/29
Volume: 20, Issue: 7, Pages: 1123-1129
Abstract
Normative data for WHOQOLbref are scarce in the literature and unavailable in Latin American countries The main objective of this study was to provide normative scores of WHOQOLbref in a general population sample in Brazil and to describe differences in mean scores according to some sociodemographic characteristicsWHOQOLbref 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 selfadministered in the presence of an interviewer in the respondent’s homeThe 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 WHOQOLbref and percentiles of scores are reported as normative data for the general populationOur results can be useful to researchers using the WHOQOLbref to compare their results with normative data from a randomly selected sample of general population Additionally the ability of WHOQOLbref to discriminate different population subgroups makes it an important tool to identify vulnerable groups in epidemiological surveys
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