tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life and migration: A cross-sectional study on elderly Iranians in Sweden"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học đề tài : Health-related quality of life and migration: A cross-sectional study on elderly Iranians in Sweden | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Health-related quality of life and migration A cross-sectional study on elderly Iranians in Sweden Afsaneh Koochek 1 Ali Montazerit2 Sven-Erik Johansson 1 and Jan Sundquistt1 3 Open Access Address 1Center for Family and Community Medicine Karolinska Institute Huddinge Sweden 2Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research Tehran Iran and 3Stanford Prevention Research Center Stanford University School of Medicine California USA Email Afsaneh Koochek - Ali Montazeri - Montazeri@ Sven-Erik Johansson - Jan Sundquist - Corresponding author tEqual contributors Published 23 November 2007 Received I June 2007 I. J z . z. z - . r . r Accepted 23 November 2007 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5 60 doi 1477-7525-5-60 This article is available from http content 5 1 60 2007 Koochek et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Although elderly Iranian immigrants in Sweden are the largest elderly group born outside Europe little is known about their health-related quality of life HRQL . The aim of this study was to examine the association between migration status and HRQL in a comparison of elderly Iranians in Iran elderly Iranian immigrants in Sweden and elderly Swedes in Sweden. Methods The Short Form Health Survey SF-36 was administered to a total of 625 men and women aged 60-84 years to collect HRQL information on elderly Iranians in Sweden n I76 and elderly Iranians in Iran n 298 . A Swedish control group n I5I was also randomly selected from the general population. Multiple linear regression procedures were applied to analyze data while .