Quality of life in older adults according to race/color : a cross-sectional study

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Darlene Mara dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Nayara Gomes Nunes, Cruz, Keila Cristianne Trindade da, Bolina, Alisson Fernandes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UnB
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio2.unb.br/jspui/handle/10482/48135; https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.2021.0720.R1.29042022; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9565-0476; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4170-8761; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8146-8323; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-0176
• topic: Envelhecimento; Idosos - qualidade de vida; Modelo estatístico

BACKGROUND: Increased longevity is accompanied by new social and health demands, such as the race/color social construct, indicating the need to identify the specific needs of older adults to maintain and improve their quality of life. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to verify the direct and indirect associations of demographic, economic, and biopsychosocial characteristics with self-assessed quality of life in older adults according to race/color. DESIGN AND SETTING: This cross-sectional study included 941 older adults living in the urban area of a health microregion in Minas Gerais, Brazil. METHODS: Older adults were divided into three groups: white (n = 585), brown (n = 238), and black (n = 102) race/color. Descriptive and trajectory analyses were performed (P < 0.05). RESULTS: Among the three groups, worse self-assessed quality of life was directly associated with lower social support scores and greater numbers of depressive symptoms. Worse self-assessed quality of life was also directly associated with a higher number of functional disabilities in basic activities of daily living and the absence of a partner among older adults of brown and black race/color. Lower monthly income and higher numbers of morbidities and compromised components of the frailty phenotype were observed among participants of white race/color, as well as lower levels of education in the brown race/color group. CONCLUSION: Factors associated with poorer self-assessed quality of life among older adults in the study community differed according to race/color.