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Table 2 Means and standard deviations of QOL clusters of older adults

From: Aging, Gender and Quality of Life (AGEQOL) study: factors associated with good quality of life in older Brazilian community-dwelling adults

Domains WHOQOL

QOL*

Z

Wilks’ lambda test

P

Poor (n = 371)

Fair (n = 1054)

Good (n = 627)

WHOQOL-BREF

Mean (±sd)

Mean (±sd)

Mean (±sd)

Physical

41.0 (±14.0)

61.4 (±11.0)

78.3 (±10.1)

1282.4

0.4

<0.001

Psychological

47.7 (±12.4)

68.2 (±9.0)

80.3 (±8.8)

1335.3

0.4

<0.001

Social Relations

52.0 (±16.1)

69.1 (±10.5)

78.8 (±12.5)

555.1

0.6

<0.001

Environmental

47.3 (±10.3)

58.9 (±8.3)

72.9 (±10.5)

913.5

0.5

<0.001

WHOQOL-Old

53.1 (±9.4)

65.4 (±7.7)

77.0 (±8.4)

1007.2

0.5

<0.001

  1. *Final central cluster for QOL measure. Sd = standard deviation.