Search resultsLifestyle, quality of life, and health.
Title
Lifestyle, quality of life, and health.
Publication type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2003
Authors
Journal
TheScientificWorldJournal [electronic resource]
Volume
3
Pagination
811 - 825
Date published
2003
ISBN
1537744X (ISSN)
Keywords
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, article, Cross-Sectional Studies, cross-sectional study, Female, follow up, Follow-Up Studies, health, Health Behavior, health status, health survey, Health Surveys, human, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Life Style, lifestyle, Longitudinal Studies, longitudinal study, Middle Aged, Models, Statistical, newborn, Pregnancy, Prospective Studies, prospective study, psychological aspect, quality of life, questionnaire, Questionnaires, statistical model
Abstract
This study was performed in order to investigate the connection between lifestyle, quality of life, and health status by way of a questionnaire-based survey. The questionnaire was mailed in February 1993 to 2,460 persons aged between 18 and 88, randomly selected from the CPR (Danish Central Register), and 7,222 persons from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61. A total of 1,501 persons between the ages of 18 and 88 years and 4,626 persons between the ages of 31 and 33 years returned the questionnaire (response rates 61.0% and 64.1%, respectively). Variables investigated in this study were: alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption, type of diet, amount of exercise taken, quality of life, self-assessed health status, and number of medical complaints from which respondent suffered. The results showed that health has a stronger correlation to quality of life (r = 0.5, p < 0.0001) than it has to lifestyle (r = 0.2, p < 0.0001). It is concluded that preventable diseases could be more effectively handled through a concentrated effort to improve quality of life rather than through an approach that focuses solely on the factors that are traditionally seen to reflect an unhealthy lifestyle.