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Association between chronic conditions and health-related quality of life: differences by level of urbanization in Peru

Overview of attention for article published in Quality of Life Research, July 2017
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Title
Association between chronic conditions and health-related quality of life: differences by level of urbanization in Peru
Published in
Quality of Life Research, July 2017
DOI 10.1007/s11136-017-1649-7
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Alvaro Taype-Rondan, Elizabeth Sarah Abbs, Maria Lazo-Porras, William Checkley, Robert H. Gilman, Liam Smeeth, J. Jaime Miranda, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz

Abstract

To evaluate the role of urbanization as an effect modifier for the association between specific chronic conditions and number of conditions with health-related quality of life (QOL). We analyzed cross-sectional data from the CRONICAS Cohort Study conducted in Lima (highly urbanized), Tumbes (semi-urban), as well as rural and urban sites in Puno. Exposures of interest were chronic bronchitis, depressive mood, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and a composite variable aggregating the number of chronic conditions (the four exposures plus heart disease and stroke). QOL outcomes were assessed with EuroQol's EQ-5D visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS). We fitted linear regressions with robust variance to evaluate the associations of interest. Study site was assessed as a potential effect modifier using the likelihood-ratio (LR) test. We evaluated data on 2433 subjects: 51.3% were female, mean age was 57.2 years. Study site was found to be an effect modifier only for the association between depressive mood and EQ-VAS score (LR test p < 0.001). Compared to those without depressive mood, participants with depressive mood scored -13.7 points on the EQ-VAS in Lima, -7.9 in urban Puno, -11.0 in semi-urban Tumbes, and -2.7 in rural Puno. Study site was not found to be an effect modifier for the association between the number of chronic conditions and EQ-VAS (LR test p = 0.64). The impact of depressive mood on EQ-VAS was larger in urban than in rural sites, while site was not an effect modifier for the remaining associations.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 14%
Researcher 13 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 8%
Other 5 5%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 33 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 11%
Psychology 8 8%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 38 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2017.
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#6,783,360
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#701
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#105,612
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Outputs of similar age from Quality of Life Research
#19
of 83 outputs
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