caa a22 4500 467917515 CHVBK 20180406152907.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-4855-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-4855-6 Health Condition and Quality of Life in Older Adults: Adaptation of Qolie-89 [Elektronische Daten] [Anastasia Efklides, Maria Varsami, Ioanna Mitadi, Dimitrios Economidis] This study aimed at adapting the Questionnaire Quality of Life in Epilepsy (QOLIE-89 version 1.0: Vickrey etal., 1993), Quality of Life in Epilepsy QoLIE-89 RAND (Santa Monica, CA)] so that it may be used to measure quality of life (QoL) of older adults, healthy or suffering from various chronic illnesses. The participants were 202 older adults recruited from the Pathology Clinic of a general hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, and from Community Centers for Older adults. The mean age was 71years. Of them, 51 suffered from diabetes, 50 from cardiovascular disease, 52 suffered from arthritis/myoskeletal diseases, and 49 were healthy. The QOLIE-89 inventory comprises 89 items that measure 17 topics. Exploratory factor analysis revealed 3 factors, namely, health (i.e., physical health and functioning), cognition, and social behavior. Cronbach's α for the various topics in each group of participants ranged from 0.60 to 0.90 with a number of exceptions with very low α. Concurrent validity was tested through correlations with measures of subjective well being, affect, life satisfaction, and adaptation to old age. A series of ANOVAs showed differences between the healthy and the chronic illness groups of participants but no clearcut differences between the three chronic illness groups. Further study on the adaptation of QOLIE-89 is needed so that its potential as a general measure of QoL in older adults is determined. Springer, 2006 chronic illness nationallicence elderly nationallicence health nationallicence QOLIE-89 nationallicence quality of life nationallicence Efklides Anastasia Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Varsami Maria Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Mitadi Ioanna Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Economidis Dimitrios Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 76/1(2006-03-01), 35-53 0303-8300 76:1<35 2006 76 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4855-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4855-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Efklides Anastasia Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Varsami Maria Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mitadi Ioanna Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Economidis Dimitrios Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 76/1(2006-03-01), 35-53 0303-8300 76:1<35 2006 76 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer