Table 1 Frequency distribution of institutionalized elderly’s HRQoL (n = 125), according to sex, educational level, retirement, family visits, performance of daily-living activities and frailty status
Independent Variables | HRQoL | p-value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor (< 62 points) | Good (≥ 62 points) | |||||
n | % | n | % | |||
Sex | Male | 21 | 16.8 | 21 | 16.8 | 0.848 |
Female | 40 | 32.0 | 43 | 34.4 | ||
Educational level | Primary, secondary or higher education | 36 | 28.8 | 39 | 31.2 | 0.827 |
Literate or illiterate | 25 | 20.0 | 25 | 20.0 | ||
Retirement | Yes | 59 | 47.2 | 51 | 40.8 | 0.002 |
No | 2 | 1.6 | 15 | 12.0 | ||
Family visits | Yes | 44 | 35.2 | 48 | 38.4 | 0.717 |
No | 17 | 13.6 | 16 | 12.8 | ||
Performance of daily-living activities | Independent (dependent of ≤1 function) | 43 | 34.4 | 58 | 46.4 | 0.004 |
Dependent (dependent of ≥2 functions) | 18 | 14.4 | 6 | 4.8 | ||
Frailty status | Not Frail (< 3 points) | 19 | 15.2 | 50 | 40.0 | < 0.001 |
Frail (≥ 3 points) | 42 | 33.6 | 14 | 11.2 | ||