Percepcija zdravlja u pokretnih starijih osoba (segment studije o kroničnim bolestima u Hrvatskoj)
Perception of Health among the Mobile Aged Population (Part of The Study on Chronic Disease in Croatia)

Summary/Abstract: With the health survey SF-36® we examined the perception of health (standard Croatian version) in 396 older persons, participants in the research with various social economic characteristics. A lower perception of health was determined in the older age group (76-91 years of age - IV age: components of physical functioning and physical limitations). Women showed lower self-assessment of bodily pain component. Urban participants showed higher perceptions of general health components, mental health components, vitality, physical limitations and bodily pain. Participants with lower education showed lower perception of health. Education is, according to all dimensions of health, a statistically more relevant factor in comparison to arbitrary poverty threshold (monthly pension: ±1500.00 kn per month). Regression analysis explains a statistically significant, but relatively small percentage of variance of one’s own perception of physical health (12%). Statistically significant predictors are age, education and region (whereas the continental region of Croatia shows a higher perception of physical health scale). Social economic characteristics statistically do not explain the perception of physical health scale of instrument SF-36.

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