Life quality associated with health in the Elder's Club Sports Friends. Municipality of Matanzas 2006

Abstract

We carried out a descriptive study to evaluate the life quality related with health in old people integrating the elder's club “Sports Friends”, from Matanzas, during the 2006 year. For that reason, we took all the members of the club as sample. To obtain the information, we used a survey created by the National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of the United Stated. The survey was applied to every of the members of the club. We studied the following variables: age, sex, marital status, scholarship, personal pathologic records, time assisting to the elder's club, health perception, average of days in which mental or physical problems did not allow to enjoy a good physical or mental health, and the average of days in which this problems did not allow them to do their daily activities. These elements allowed us to calculate non-healthy days, being an estimation of the quantity of days during the 30 precedent days in which the enquired considered their physical and mental health was not good. As a result we concluded that the mean age of the club members is 69 years old, female sex predominates over male, white people are the biggest percent, and the finished secondary level of scholarship and married marital status predominated in their categories. The most predominant disease among these old people was blood hypertension. The average these people did not enjoy a good physical and mental health was 6 and 5 respectively. On average, only one day the physical or mental discomfort reflected in their daily activities. The average of healthy days was 20 days.