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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Gender-based profiling of Quality of Life (QOL) of primary health care (PHC) attendees in central Uganda: a cross sectional analysis</title><author><name sortKey="Muhwezi, Ww" sort="Muhwezi, Ww" uniqKey="Muhwezi W" first="Ww" last="Muhwezi">Ww Muhwezi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Okello, Es" sort="Okello, Es" uniqKey="Okello E" first="Es" last="Okello">Es Okello</name></author><author><name sortKey="Turiho, Ak" sort="Turiho, Ak" uniqKey="Turiho A" first="Ak" last="Turiho">Ak Turiho</name></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">21416040</idno><idno type="pmc">3052806</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052806</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:3052806</idno><date when="2010">2010</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">001558</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">001558</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">Gender-based profiling of Quality of Life (QOL) of primary health care (PHC) attendees in central Uganda: a cross sectional analysis</title><author><name sortKey="Muhwezi, Ww" sort="Muhwezi, Ww" uniqKey="Muhwezi W" first="Ww" last="Muhwezi">Ww Muhwezi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Okello, Es" sort="Okello, Es" uniqKey="Okello E" first="Es" last="Okello">Es Okello</name></author><author><name sortKey="Turiho, Ak" sort="Turiho, Ak" uniqKey="Turiho A" first="Ak" last="Turiho">Ak Turiho</name></author></analytic><series><title level="j">African Health Sciences</title><idno type="ISSN">1680-6905</idno><idno type="eISSN">1729-0503</idno><imprint><date when="2010">2010</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Objective</title><p>To analyze gender differences in QOL of patients presenting at PHC centres and to identify the socio-demographic variables associated with poor QOL.</p></sec><sec sec-type="methods"><title>Methods</title><p>This was a cross-sectional study. Consecutive adult patients at outpatient departments of three PHC centres were eligible. Those selected were interviewed using the WHOQOL-BREF, a 26-item questionnaire generating four domain scores of physical, psychological, environment and social relationships.</p></sec><sec sec-type="results"><title>Results</title><p>The study had 446 respondents aged 18–84 years. Female parents significantly performed poorly on the physical health domain (OR 2.47: 95 % CI: 1.32 – 4.61). Respondents reported comparable scores on the 3 WHOQOL-BREF domains, except on poor physical health where being a parent had a positive association (OR 2.12; 95% CI: 1.27 – 3.55). Belonging to an age-range of 18–29 years had a positive association with poor physical health (OR 1.74; 95% CI: 1.13 – 2.68).</p></sec><sec sec-type="conclusions"><title>Conclusion</title><p>Generally, women reported poorer physical health. Health workers need orientation and training to appreciate the role of gender in health care. There is need to appreciate the complexities affecting QOL of women that are physically ill. Interventions aimed at improving patients' QOL at PHC centres should take a gender-based perspective that recognizes the greater vulnerability of women to poor physical health.</p></sec></div></front></TEI><pmc article-type="research-article"><pmc-comment>The publisher of this article does not allow downloading of the full text in XML form.</pmc-comment>
<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Afr Health Sci</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>African Health Sciences</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1680-6905</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1729-0503</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Makerere Medical School</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Kampala, Uganda</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">21416040</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">3052806</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">jAFHS.v10.i4.pg374</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Original Articles</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Gender-based profiling of Quality of Life (QOL) of primary health care (PHC) attendees in central Uganda: a cross sectional analysis</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Muhwezi</surname><given-names>WW</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Okello</surname><given-names>ES</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Turiho</surname><given-names>AK</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><aff>Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda</aff><author-notes><corresp><bold>*Corresponding author:</bold> Dr. Wilson Wintsons Muhwezi Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine Makerere University College of Health Sciences P.O. Box 7072 Kampala, Uganda Email address: <email>wmuhwezi@chs.mak.ac.ug</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>12</month><year>2010</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>374</fpage><lpage>385</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © Makerere Medical School, Uganda 2010</copyright-statement></permissions><abstract abstract-type="executive-summary"><sec><title>Objective</title><p>To analyze gender differences in QOL of patients presenting at PHC centres and to identify the socio-demographic variables associated with poor QOL.</p></sec><sec sec-type="methods"><title>Methods</title><p>This was a cross-sectional study. Consecutive adult patients at outpatient departments of three PHC centres were eligible. Those selected were interviewed using the WHOQOL-BREF, a 26-item questionnaire generating four domain scores of physical, psychological, environment and social relationships.</p></sec><sec sec-type="results"><title>Results</title><p>The study had 446 respondents aged 18–84 years. Female parents significantly performed poorly on the physical health domain (OR 2.47: 95 % CI: 1.32 – 4.61). Respondents reported comparable scores on the 3 WHOQOL-BREF domains, except on poor physical health where being a parent had a positive association (OR 2.12; 95% CI: 1.27 – 3.55). Belonging to an age-range of 18–29 years had a positive association with poor physical health (OR 1.74; 95% CI: 1.13 – 2.68).</p></sec><sec sec-type="conclusions"><title>Conclusion</title><p>Generally, women reported poorer physical health. Health workers need orientation and training to appreciate the role of gender in health care. There is need to appreciate the complexities affecting QOL of women that are physically ill. Interventions aimed at improving patients' QOL at PHC centres should take a gender-based perspective that recognizes the greater vulnerability of women to poor physical health.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>quality of life</kwd><kwd>primary health care</kwd><kwd>Uganda</kwd><kwd>gender</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></pmc></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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