Quality of life in the older adults: The protective role of self-efficacy in adequate coping in patients with chronic diseases.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present study was to establish the association between self-efficacy, perception of disease, emotional regulation, and fatigue and the health-related quality of life in older adults living in the departments of Cesar and Atlántico in Colombia and who have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. The participants were 325 older adults of both sexes, with literacy and no presence of cognitive impairment in the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE); A non-probabilistic sampling was carried out. We used the MOS-SF-36 questionnaire, the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire scale for measuring the perception of disease, the Stanford Patient Education Research Center's Chronic Disease Self self-efficacy questionnaire for chronic patients, the Difficulties in Emotional Regulation

SUBMITTER: Cudris-Torres L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10117781 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature