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<h3>Background</h3>
<p>There is a gap in our knowledge of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population presumed healthy, so this study aimed to assess the associations between HRQoL, demographics and clinical variables.</p>
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<h3>Methods</h3>
<p>The participants were attendees, presumed healthy, at 40 pre-selected model family medicine practices (MFMPs), aged between 30 and 65 years and recruited during a preventive check-up in 2019. Each MFMP pragmatically invited 30 attendees to voluntarily participate. The EQ-5D questionnaire was administered as a measure of HRQoL; the independent variables were demographic characteristics, smoking, alcohol consumption, stress perception, physical activity, signs of depression, cardiovascular risk, body mass index, blood pressure values, and blood sugar and lipidogram laboratory test values. Ordinal logistic regression was used to calculate associations between self-assessed quality of life, demographics, and clinical variables, with P&lt;0.05 set as statistically significant.</p></sec>
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<h3>Results</h3>
<p>Of 986 participants, 640 (64.9%) were women and 346 (35.1%) men, aged 42.7±8.6 years. The average values for the EQ-5D-3L were 0.91±0.15. In the multivariate model, a positive association between adequate physical activity (p=0.003), and a negative association between higher age (p&lt;0.001), female gender (p=0.009), signs of depression (p&lt;0.001), stress (p=0.013), and EQ-5D score were identified.</p></sec>
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<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Given that physical activity was shown to be positively associated with HRQoL, it is of the utmost importance for family physicians to motivate their middle-aged patients, especially women and those with signs of depression and excessive stress, to adopt a more rigorously physically active lifestyle.</p></sec></abstract>

Background
There is a gap in our knowledge of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population presumed healthy, so this study aimed to assess the associations between HRQoL, demographics and clinical variables.


Methods
The participants were attendees, presumed healthy, at 40 pre-selected model family medicine practices (MFMPs), aged between 30 and 65 years and recruited during a preventive check-up in 2019. Each MFMP pragmatically invited 30 attendees to voluntarily participate. The EQ-5D questionnaire was administered as a measure of HRQoL; the independent variables were demographic characteristics, smoking, alcohol consumption, stress perception, physical activity, signs of depression, cardiovascular risk, body mass index, blood pressure values, and blood sugar and lipidogram laboratory test values. Ordinal logistic regression was used to calculate associations between self-assessed quality of life, demographics, and clinical variables, with P<0.05 set as statistically significant.

Results
Of 986 participants, 640 (64.9%) were women and 346 (35.1%) men, aged 42.7±8.6 years. The average values for the EQ-5D-3L were 0.91±0.15. In the multivariate model, a positive association between adequate physical activity (p=0.003), and a negative association between higher age (p<0.001), female gender (p=0.009), signs of depression (p<0.001), stress (p=0.013), and EQ-5D score were identified.

Conclusion
Given that physical activity was shown to be positively associated with HRQoL, it is of the utmost importance for family physicians to motivate their middle-aged patients, especially women and those with signs of depression and excessive stress, to adopt a more rigorously physically active lifestyle.

Quality of life and health status in middle-aged presumed healthy Slovenian family practice attendees

Slovenian Journal of Public Health

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Kakovost življenja in zdravstveno stanje domnevno zdravih obiskovalcev ambulant družinske medicine srednjih let v Sloveniji

Background
There is a gap in our knowledge of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population presumed healthy, so this study aimed to assess the...

Quality of life and health status in middle-aged presumed healthy Slovenian family practice attendees

Article Category: Original scientific article

Published Online: Jun 28, 2021

Page range: 182 - 189

Received: Dec 16, 2020

Accepted: Feb 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0026

Keywords
health related quality of life, health status, family practice, middle-age, physical activity, depression, stress, coping

© 2021 National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Quality of life and health status in middle-aged presumed healthy Slovenian family practice attendees

Article Category: Original scientific article

Published Online: Jun 28, 2021

Page range: 182 - 189

Received: Dec 16, 2020

Accepted: Feb 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0026

Keywordshealth related quality of life, health status, family practice, middle-age, physical activity, depression, stress, coping

© 2021 National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
health related quality of life, health status, family practice, middle-age, physical activity, depression, stress, coping