Wybrane społeczne wyznaczniki jakości życia 50-letnich Polek w kontekście ich sytuacji zdrowotnej

• Main Author: Małgorzata Synowiec-Piłat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Termedia Publishing House 2010-12-01
• Series: Menopause Review
• Subjects: quality of life; health behaviours; sociology of medicine
• Online Access: http://www.termedia.pl/Wybrane-spoleczne-wyznaczniki-jakosci-zycia-50-letnich-Polek-w-kontekscie-ich-sytuacji-zdrowotnej,4,15863,1,0.html

Nowadays, the quality of life has become one of the essential issues that come up when the health statusof particular categories or social groups are discussed. It has been empirically proved that not only the biologicalstructure of an organism influences our health, but also that, at a great range, our health is contingent by factorsof psychosocial nature. Objectives: The objective of research, performed in April 2009, was to recognize chosensocial life quality determinants in a group of mature women, in relation to their health status. Materials andMethods: 209 women – citizens of Wroclaw, aged between 50 and 60, were researched. The assessment wasdone by means of a highly standardized survey questionnaire. Results: both material and occupational status ofmost respondents might be regarded as good. It is worth mentioning that, in the opinion of more than half (57%)women researched, their occupation has a negative influence on their health, although to a various degree. Generally,women in the examined group tend to relax in a passive way. What seems advantageous, it is the lengthand quality of their night dreaming. Only 1/3 of the researched evaluate their condition positively; 44% of themfeel various disorders, causing discomfort, once a time, and 14% claim to feel so bad that their health conditionmakes their normal functioning hard. As many as 72% of these women do not suffer from any terminal illness.