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Revista Cubana de Salud y Trabajo 2014; 15 (1)

Adaptation of the SF-36 questionnaire for measuring health-related life quality in cuban workers

Trujillo BWG, Román HJJ, Lombard HAM, Remior FE, Arredondo NOF, Martínez PE, Jova LY, Revueltas AYJ, Valdivieso RJF

Language: Spanish
References: 22
Page: 62-70
PDF size: 330.08 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The health-related life quality (HRLQ) is the state of satisfaction of and individual with the physical, social and psychological aspects of his living, as long as they are compromised by his health condition. The validation of the cultural adaptation of questioning list SF-36, to the Cuban working population and to describe the HRLQ of the stud-ied workers using a descriptive epidemiologic research in several working sectors at Municipality Arroyo Naranjo, province of Havana. These working sectors were selected using a conglomerate sampling approach in each of the ten councils of this municipality. It was made a cultural adaptation of the SF-36 and it was used to study a trial group. Judges/experts were consulted and there were questioned 1 700 work-ers. There were use the Cronbach Alpha stadigraphyes, averages, variables and correlations. The version proves to be valid in appear-ance and meaning according of the judge’s opinion. It was also prove a satisfactory confidence out of the internal consistency and the capabil-ity and utility for been apply into general o specific group of workers, for diagnosing the level of perception that these persons have of the health related life quality (HRLQ). The workers from the health sector and educational, industrial and public administration sectors, perceived their best life quality in the dimension physical functioning as well as their lowest in general health. In the agricultural sector the social functioning was found better that the physical. The same happened with those workers from the commerce industry were Vitality and body pain receive bad perception among the general health condition.


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