Fatores que influenciam a qualidade de vida dos idosos por meio da regressão logística: um estudo de caso no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The population aging process is a phenomenon that has been occurring in the last decades in an accelerated way in several countries of the world, including Brazil. It is a relevant issue due to the needs generated by this process, which need to be covered by policies in several areas, which must take into account important aspects in the construction of factors that have an impact on life expectancy, health and independence, factors linked the quality of life of the elderly. In this sense, the objective of this study is to investigate, through the use of the logistic regression method, which factors have the greatest impact on the quality of life of the elderly assisted by the Geriatrics Outpatient Clinic of the Walter Cantídio University Hospital, linked to the Federal University of Ceará. The data used in this monograph were obtained in a secondary way, from Carvalho’s dissertation (2019), in which there was the application of a questionnaire based on an international study on the quality of life of the elderly, carried out in twelve Latin American countries, including Brazil, in which the state of Ceará was included. In this study, 95 elderly people attended by the HUWC-UFC answered a questionnaire containing 26 questions from WHOQOL, an instrument for assessing quality of life in old age proposed by the World Health Organization. The adequacy of the proposed model was verified through the p-value obtained, and after that, a diagnostic analysis was made and, with the aid of the ROC curve, the elderly were classified according to their quality of life in Good or Bad. The results obtained indicated that an elderly person who lives in a healthy environment, is well informed of what happens around them, is satisfied with their physical capacity and their social and personal relationships have a greater chance of being satisfied with their quality of life.