Assessment of quality of life among plantation workersusing WHOQOL-BREF
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 12
Abstract
Introduction: The progress to evidence based practice of medicine implies the need for shift from recognizing disease to risk factor identification for early preventive management. Health status measures, which are multilevel and multi-dimensional, have emerged to fill this gap. There are many published QOL (Quality of Life) measures but there is still a lack of consensus among researchers about its definition and this is reflected in the choice of items for their instruments. Objectives: Assess the Quality of life using the WHOQOL-BREF recommended by World Health Organization andexplore socio-demographic relationship to quality of life. Material and methods: A cross-sectional study to assess the quality of life of plantation workers was designed in an effort to analyze their quality of life. A total of 270 households with 342 (females 240 and males 102) rubber tappers were included in this study. Results: QOL scores when compared between males and females showed that the overall QOL score was almost same for both. But males had higher scores for physical and environment domains, which was statistically significant using unpaired t-test.QOL scores decreased as age advanced in all domains but this difference in mean scores was found to be statistically significant only for the social relationships domain. However the post–hoc test (LSD) revealed that the difference in scores was statistically significant between the age groups of < 35yrs and > 45 years.
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Suruliraman SM, Suma K, Anjan S
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