title: [Health-related quality of life in elderly in a primary care unit].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To know the self-perceived quality of life by elderly patients through two evaluation instruments.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective, observational, cross-sectional, and descriptive study. Successful information of 178 elder adults attending medical consultation was obtained with the purpose of evaluating the quality of life, through two validated questionnaires: Nottingham Health Profile and Coop/Wonca charts. The U Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test were used, with a significant level of 0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The worst statistical quality of life variables in both tests were: women, widow, low studies level and no working. In relation with the coexisting chronic medical conditions for the health profile: diabetes mellitus patients showed a worse quality in all dimensions with statistical significance. As for the charts, cardiac disease patients showed the same situation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In both tests, similar data in relation with the factors that condition a poor quality of life were found.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Posgrado, Departamento de Medicina Familiar, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, México. albemari@correo.unam.mx
authors.forename: Alberto González
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Pedraza-Avilés
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vázquez-Navarrete
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept