Abstract
Objectives
To investigate the relationship between diseases and self-rated health / functional capacity between gender and in different educational levels.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted with follow-up of 419 older adults who participated in the FIBRA Study, which investigated frailty in aged individuals. Socio-demographic variables, chronic non-communicable diseases, self-rated health and functional capacity were evaluated. Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test were used to test associations between the number of diseases and self-rated health and functional capacity, with the significance level set to 5%.
Results
Negative self-rated health was significantly associated with the number of chronic diseases in the overall sample, among women and in both schooling categories. Having partial or total dependency on at least one or more instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) showed a significant association for number of chronic diseases in the overall sample, among women and among individuals with 0 to four years of schooling.
Conclusion
The chronic diseases seem to have a negative impact on self-rated health, especially in women and in relation to years of schooling, and they seem to have a functional disability in relation to instrumental activities of daily living, especially in women and the old people with 0 to 4 years of schooling.
Keywords
Activities of Daily Living; Health of the Elderly; Epidemiological Studies; Morbidity
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(a) Number of chronic diseases associated with self-rated health as fair/poor/very poor in overall sample; (b) Number of chronic diseases associated with self-rated health as fair/poor/very poor among males; (c) Number of chronic diseases associated with self-rated health as fair/poor/very poor among females; (d) Number of chronic diseases associated with self-rated health as fair/poor/very poor among five years or more of schooling; (e) Number of chronic diseases associated with self-rated health as fair/poor/very poor among illiterate to four years of schooling. FIBRA Study, Brazil, 2016-2017.
(a) Number of chronic diseases associated with having difficulty on at least one instrumental activity of daily living (IADL) in overall sample; (b) Number of chronic diseases associated with having difficulty on at least one IADL among males; (c) Number of chronic diseases associated with having difficulty on at least one IADL among females; (d) Number of chronic diseases associated with having difficulty on at least one IADL among five years or more of schooling; (e) Number of chronic diseases associated with having difficulty on at least one IADL among illiterate to four years of schooling. FIBRA Study, Brazil, 2016-2017.