scholarly journals Online Gaming and Well-Being in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 120-121
Author(s):  
Pamela Almeida-Meza ◽  
Dorina Cadar ◽  
Andrew Steptoe ◽  
Carrie Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Using Data ◽  
English Longitudinal Study

Abstract Play is considered an important contributor to healthy ageing. Using data from 3,067 participants aged 50+ from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we explored online gaming assessed at wave 6 (2012/13) and quality-of-life, loneliness, and depression at wave 9 (2018/19). Covariates were age, sex, marital status, education, work status, depression, self-rated health, physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption. We found that 22% of respondents engaged in gaming. Interaction analyses indicated that for younger individuals (<65 years), gaming predicted lower scores in the self-realization sub-scale of the quality-of-life scale in comparison to older gamers. Furthermore, there was a significant association between gaming and lower quality-of-life for widowed individuals only, particularly in terms of autonomy, self-realization, and pleasure. There were non-significant associations between gaming and loneliness and depression. Online gaming might be independently associated with lower levels of quality of life, especially for younger and widowed adults.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic and Quality of Life among Romanian Athletes

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4065
Author(s):  
Germina-Alina Cosma ◽  
Alina Chiracu ◽  
Amalia Raluca Stepan ◽  
Marian Alexandru Cosma ◽  
Marian Costin Nanu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Personality Item ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study was to analyze athletes’ quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved 249 athletes between 15 and 35 of age, M = 21.22, SD = 5.12. The sample was composed of eight Olympic Games medalists, three European medalists, 67 international medalists, and 63 national medalists. The instruments used were: (1) COVID-19 Anxiety Scale, (2) Athlete Quality of Life Scale, (3) Impact of Pandemic on Athletes Questionnaire, and (4) International Personality Item Pool (IPIP Anxiety, Depression, and Vulnerability Scales). The results indicate significant differences in COVID-19 anxiety depending on the sport practiced, F (9239) = 3.81, p < 0.01, showing that there were significant differences between sports. The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic mediates the relationship between trait anxiety and the athletes’ quality of life. The percentage of mediation was 33.9%, and the indirect effect was −0.11, CI 95% (−0.18, −0.03), Z = −2.82, p < 0.01. Trait anxiety has an increasing effect on the intensity of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 0.23, CI 95% (.10, 0.35), Z = 3.56, p < 0.01, and the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has a decreasing effect on quality of life, −0.47, CI 95% (−0.67, −0.27), Z = −4.62, p < 0.01. Gender and age did not moderate the relationship between the negative impact of COVID-19 and athletes’ quality of life. The results of the study highlighted the impact that social isolation and quarantine have on athletes’ affective well-being.

scholarly journals Correlates of quality of life in adulthood: Socio-demographic correlates

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Ivana Davidovic ◽  
Jelica Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Subjective Evaluation ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Demographic Correlates ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Sociodemographic Correlates

The main purpose of this research was testing the quality of life in adults in Serbia. In order to obtain a more detailed picture, the sociodemographic correlates of quality of life were examined. The sample included 153 participants of both genders, aged 30-50 with different professional qualifications. The research involves both objective and subjective evaluation of quality of life in seven domains: material well-being, health, productivity, intimacy, safety, well-being inside a larger community and emotional well-being. For the purpose of the research an adapted version of the instrument ComQol (Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale, Adult, fifth edition, Cummins, 1997) was used. The highest level was estimated in areas such as intimacy, health, safety and productivity whereas the lowest level outcame for material well-being and content with a place in a community. Results also show significant differences in quality of life among certain socio-demographic groups, mainly between younger and older, examinees of different genders, educational degrees and marital statuses. Given results provide guidelines for future researches of quality of life in Serbia, therefore they are practical implications important for designing and implementing of programmess for advancement of weak domains in life quality for adults, beside the preventive programmes which would maintain higher quality levels of life already achieved.

scholarly journals Instrumentos de avaliação de qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde no diabetes melito

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 931-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Clayton Torres Aguiar ◽  
Anya Pimentel G. Fernandes Vieira ◽  
André Ferrer Carvalho ◽  
Renan M. Montenegro-Junior
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Impact Measurement ◽  
Measurement Scales ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Patients With Diabetes

A avaliação da qualidade de vida (QV) vem se tornando cada vez mais utilizada para medir o impacto geral de doenças na vida dos indivíduos. O diabetes melito (DM) é uma doença crônica associada com morbimortalidade elevada e prejuízo na QV. Em estudos longitudinais, o impacto psicossocial da DM prediz a mortalidade nessa doença. Esta revisão busca descrever e analisar os principais instrumentos de avaliação da QV em pacientes com DM. Foram analisados instrumentos genéricos, como Quality of Well-Being Scale (QWB), The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) e EuroQol (EQ-5D), e instrumentos específicos, como Diabetes Care Profile (DCP), Diabetes Quality of Life Measure (DQOL), Diabetes Impact Measurement Scales (DIMS), Appraisal of Diabetes Scale (ADS), Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life (ADDQoL), Diabetes Health Profile (DHP-1 e DHP-18), Questionnaire on Stress in Patients with Diabetes-Revised (QSD-R), Well-Being Enquiry for Diabetics (WED), Diabetes-Specific Quality-of-life Scale (DSQOLS), Diabetes 39 (D-39) e Problems Areas in Diabetes (PAID). O PAID é o único instrumento traduzido e validado para uso no Brasil. Tanto os instrumentos genéricos quanto os específicos têm vantagens e desvantagens na aferição da QV de pacientes com DM. O uso combinado de instrumentos genéricos (como o SF-36) e específicos (como o PAID) parece ser uma forma consistente de avaliação da QV em pacientes diabéticos no Brasil. O presente artigo revisa os vários instrumentos e enfatiza a necessidade urgente de estudos para validação desses instrumentos em pacientes diabéticos brasileiros.

scholarly journals Reference values for the short forms of the Singapore Caregiver Quality of Life Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Fan Lee ◽  
Hwee Lin Wee ◽  
Irene Teo ◽  
Geok Ling Lee ◽  
Julian Thumboo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Reference Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Caregiver Quality ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Domain Scores

Abstract Purpose The 15- and 10-item short forms of the Singapore Caregiver Quality of Life Scale (SCQOLS-15 and SCQOLS-10) were recently developed as a quick assessment of caregiver quality of life. Reference values describing the distribution of the total and domain scores are available for the full-length version, but they are not yet available for the short forms. This study aimed to estimate the reference values for the short forms. Methods Data from a cross-sectional survey of 612 family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer in Singapore were fitted in quantile regression models. Percentiles were estimated by regressing the short forms’ scores on caregiver characteristics. Classification by the reference values for the short forms and the full-length version were compared and agreement was evaluated. Results The caregiver’s role in caring for the patient and the patient’s performance status were associated with the percentiles of the total scores and most domain scores (each Bonferroni-adjusted p-value, PB, < 0.05). Higher-educated caregivers were categorized into higher percentiles according to the SCQOLS-15 and SCQOLS-10 total scores and the SCQOLS-15 Mental Well-being and Financial Well-being domain scores (each PB < 0.05). Ethnicity was associated with the SCQOLS-15 Physical Well-being and Experience & Meaning domains (each PB < 0.05). The percentiles for the short forms showed moderate to substantial agreement with those for the full-length version in terms of classifying caregivers into percentile intervals (quadratic-weighted Kappa = 0.72 to 0.92). Conclusion Reference values for the SCQOLS-15 and SCQOLS-10 were estimated in relation to caregiver characteristics to facilitate interpretation of the short form scores.

scholarly journals Neki tipovi valjanosti i pouzdanosti dviju skala vjerovanja u pravedan svijet

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Ćubela ◽  
Ana Proroković ◽  
Ljiljana Gregov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Just World ◽  
Psychometric Characteristics ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Personal Domain ◽  
Life Scale

Almost three decades of research on individual differences in the Belief in a Just World (BJW) provided strong evidence of their relationship with measurements of a number of other constructs such as authoritarianism, religiosity, locus of control, attitudes toward (under)privileged, neuroticism, life satisfaction and other indicators of well-being. This paper presents some psychometric characteristics of the General BJW scale (Dalbert et al., 1987) and the Personal BJW scale (Dalbert, 1993) that were established in their first administration to a group of 206 students at the Faculty of Science and Arts in Zadar. Both scales were found to be reliable, one-factor measures of two relatively separated aspects of the BJW. Consistently with findings at previous studies, the level of endorsement of BJW statements in our study was significantly higher for the Personal than the General BJW scale. The analysis of BJW scales correlations with the ratings of different aspects of life satisfaction, as measured by the Quality of Life scale (Krizmanić and Kolesarić, 1992), supported lite assumption that the BJW (especially in the personal domain) is a significant contributor in explaining the variance of life satisfaction ratings.

scholarly journals A szakmai élet minőségét mérő kérdőív (Professional Quality of Life Scale) magyar változatának validálása

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 (35) ◽  
pp. 1441-1449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Kegye ◽  
Szabolcs Takács ◽  
Borbála Ries ◽  
Ágnes Zana ◽  
Katalin Hegedűs
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Professional Quality Of Life ◽  
Professional Quality ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Hospice Workers

Abstract: Introduction: The Professional Quality of Life Scale, measuring the quality of professional life, has been developed to examine the positive and negative changes in the work of those who have undergone extremely stressful experiences. The quality of life of the personnel of palliative-hospice teams may be influenced physically as well as emotionally by their every-day experiences of suffering, death, dying and the patients’ traumas. Aim: The aim of the study was the examination of the psychometric features and factor structure of the Hungarian version of the Professional Quality of Life Scale questionnaire, which can measure compassion fatigue and satisfaction, secondary traumatisation and burnout. Our long-term objective is the development of formative and intervention strategies for hospice workers in order to increase their satisfaction, physical and mental well-being and their willingness to work in hospice. Method: The cross-sectional, questionnaire study was made with hospice workers. The questionnaires were available in an anonym, printed form. We used the Hungarian versions of the Shortened Maastricht Vital Exhaustion Questionnaire and of the Shortened Beck Depression Scale, of the CES-D Depression Scale and of the Shortened WHO General Well-Being Scale to validate. Statistical analysis: IBM SPSS 23.0© software was used for the analysis. To explore the factor structure of the measurement scale, explorative factor analysis was made (analysis of the main component, Varimax rotation); subsequently, 4 scales were prepared the Cronbach-alpha values of which were suitable for further examination. Results: 188 questionnaires were sent back (female 86.2%, male 13.8%); the majority work as nurses and in home hospice care (94 people). The inner consistency of the created 4 scales is acceptable according to the Cronbach-alpha values. The inner consistency of the questions regarding burnout is low. The correlation of our measurement scales with the standardised scales for outer validity has sufficient strength and direction. Conclusions: Our questionnaire can measure the phenomena under examination according to the expected values, with suitable consistency on the basis of the inner and outer indicators. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(35): 1441–1449.

Quality of Life in Prosthetic Voice Users

2005 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
pp. 685-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Gerwin ◽  
Gerald L. Culton
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Voice Restoration ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
The University

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to measure the efficacy of prosthetic voice restoration for laryngectomees in relation to various quality-of-life parameters. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The University of Washington Quality of Life Scale, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Scale, and a demographic data form of our own design were completed by 16 laryngectomees who had undergone prosthetic voice restoration in our private practice by Blom-Singer methodology. RESULTS: More than 80% of the respondents were positive in their assessment of each category on all three surveys. CONCLUSION: Prosthetic voice restoration in private practice resulted in achieved expectations, satisfaction with speech, and good quality of life as measured by physical, functional, social, and emotional well-being parameters. SIGNIFICANCE: Laryngectomees may be offered prosthetic voice restoration with a high likelihood that they will be satisfied.

scholarly journals Correlation between subjective well-being and quality of life in elderly

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Nataša Egeljić-Mihailović ◽  
Jelena Pavlović ◽  
Duška Jović ◽  
Darija Knežević
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale

Introduction. The aim of the study was to examine the correlation between subjective well-being and quality of life of the elderly in relation to their demographic characteristics, health, social and financial status. Methods. The study sample was comprised of 159 subjects of both sexes and of older age. The respondents underwent research in Banja Luka in the premises of the Association of Pensioners of the Republic of Srpska, senior citizens' clubs when coming to some of financial institutions to get help, to open bank accounts etc., as well as in the premises where pensioners gather to socialize and communicate. The survey questionnaire developed for the purpose of the paper and adapted to this population was used in the study. The survey questionnaire consisted of the following elements: sociodemographic data, self-assessment concerning the quality of life and Quality of Life Scale for the Elderly. Results. The study included a total of 159 subjects, 56.6% males and 43.4% females, of whom the majority were 65-75 years old (67.3%). The average health status (M = 2.17; SD = 0.68) was higher than the expected value, while the social status (M = 1.93; SD = 0.60) and the social needs (M = 1.91; SD = 0.72) were slightly lower compared to theoretical mean. Furthermore, the financial status had an average value (M = 2.08; SD = 0.59). The distribution of social needs was unsatisfactory. The obtained value of the Self-Perceived Quality of Life Scale was within the range of the theoretical mean values (M = 5.54, SD = 2.47), indicating that the distribution of the obtained quality of life values was symmetrical. Conclusion. Financial status significantly affects the quality of life of the elderly. The distribution of social needs is unsatisfactory. The level of education significantly affects the quality of life: highly educated respondents have a better health, social and financial status compared to the elderly with a lower level of education.

scholarly journals Assess the Quality of Life amongst Antenatal Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in a Selected Districts, Tamil Nadu, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
D. Joanie Priya ◽  
A. Agusta ◽  
M. Jasmine ◽  
M. Rakesh ◽  
Praveen Nirmala
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Gestational Diabetes ◽  
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale

Background: Gestational diabetes Mellitus is defined as the diabetes diagnosed within the second or third trimester of pregnancy. Gestational Diabete Mellitus is one of the most frequent metabolic diseases during pregnancy. It approximately affects 7% (range:2-18%) of all pregnancies. This clinical condition potentially affects not only negative medical outcomes but also the mental state status with additional adverse consequences on psychological well-being and Quality of Life. Objectives: Were to assess the quality of life amongest antenatal mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and to associate the quality of life amongest antenatal mothers with the selected demographic variable. Methods: The descriptive research design was used in this study. The convenient Sample (N=30) was used to assess the Quality of Life Scale among antenatal mothers with the Gestational Mothers. The data regarding demographic variables like Age, Income, Occupation, Education and Obstetric Variables like past obstetrical complications, Gravid, Week of Gestation. The result showed that 30 Antenatal Mothers with Gestational Diabetes was participated in this study and they were assessed by Modified Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL – BREF) which includes physical, psychological and social relationships domains are rated on 5points Likert Scale to determine Score. Conclusion: The result shows that the level of Quality of Life Scale of Antenatal Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (N=30) 12 of them have Moderate Quality of Life, 11 of them have Adequate Quality of Life and 07 of them have Inadequate Quality of Life. And there is Significant Association of demographic variables of age, except age other demographic and Obstetrical variables are Not Significant and (X2 – 56.16, P = >0.05).

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