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Quality of Life (QOL) and Attitudes Toward Aging in Older Adults in Şanlıurfa, Turkey:
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It was found that gender, literacy, social security, age, and marital status affect some dimensions of QOL and some subscales of attitudes toward aging.Abstract:
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate quality of life (QOL) and attitudes toward aging in older adults in a province in Turkey. Methods: This is a quantitative and descriptive st...read more
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Quality of life of older adults in Turkey
Naile Bilgili,Fatma Arpaci +1 more
TL;DR: Gender, age, education, marital status, childbearing, social insurance, health status, living arrangement and income variables are the determinant to improving the quality of life of elderly people in Turkey.
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The effects of sociodemographic factors on quality of life among people aged 50 years or older are not unequivocal: comparing SF-12, WHOQOL-BREF, and WHOQOL-OLD
Robbert J. J. Gobbens,Roy Remmen +1 more
TL;DR: The study showed that the associations of sociodemographic factors and quality of life in middle-aged and older people depend on the instruments used to assessquality of life.
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Development of a short form of the Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ).
TL;DR: This paper presents a new 12‐item short form Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ‐SF), a measure of attitudes to aging, comprising domains of psychosocial loss, physical change, and psychological growth.
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The relationship between attitudes toward aging and health-promoting behaviours in older adults.
TL;DR: Attitude towards aging is a factor that affects health-promoting behaviours, and it should be considered during interventions for improving health promoting behaviours.
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A Validation of the French Version of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity
Manon Marquet,Pierre Missotten,Sarah Schroyen,Iris van Sambeek,Marjan van den Akker,Carine Van Den Broeke,Frank Buntinx,Stéphane Adam +7 more
TL;DR: The data support the usefulness of the French version of the AAQ for the assessment of attitudes toward their own aging in older people and confirmed the need to control for social desirability biases when assessing self-reported attitudes toward one’s own aging.
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TL;DR: The World Health Organization's project to develop a quality of life instrument (the WHOQOL) is described, the reasons that the project was undertaken, the thinking that underlies the project, the method that has been followed in its development and the current status of the project.
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TL;DR: The WHOQOL-Bas discussed by the authors as discussed by the authors is an abbreviated version of the WHOQol-100 quality of life assessment, which produces scores for four domains: physical health, psychological, social relationships and environment.
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