[ Evaluation de la qualité de vie en relation avec la santé chez la population de Tétouan (Maroc) à l'aide du SF-36: l'influence du niveau d'étude et de l'état matrimonial ]
Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2014, Pages 815–822
Latifa EL EMRANI1, Abdenbi BENDRISS2, and Meftaha SENHAJI3
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
3 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
Original language: French
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Measures of the Health-Related Quality of Life have multiple potential applications, such as monitoring the evolution of the health status of population, the performance evaluation of public health policies conducted, the identification of populations at risk or help in developing interventions. However, few studies of this type have been conducted in Morocco. This work aims to study the Health-Related Quality of Life according to level of education and marital status among the population of the city of Tetouan through a survey. The SF-36 was administered to a sample selected by quotas containing 385 subjects over the age of 16 living in Tetouan city, northern Morocco.
The different dimensions of the SF-36 measured depend on the level of education and tend to increase with increasing level of study. The illiterate people have significantly low scores for the majority of dimensions. However, university people report a better Health-Related Quality of Life.
Marital status determines also the HRQOL of our population. Indeed single persons have higher scores for dimensions mainly related to physical health. As for the married persons, they have high scores for dimensions mainly related to mental health. However, divorced persons have lower scores than singles and married for all sizes, and widowed persons who have the lowest scores.
Author Keywords: Health-related quality of life, Morocco, Physical health, Mental health, Social health.
Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2014, Pages 815–822
Latifa EL EMRANI1, Abdenbi BENDRISS2, and Meftaha SENHAJI3
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
3 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Measures of the Health-Related Quality of Life have multiple potential applications, such as monitoring the evolution of the health status of population, the performance evaluation of public health policies conducted, the identification of populations at risk or help in developing interventions. However, few studies of this type have been conducted in Morocco. This work aims to study the Health-Related Quality of Life according to level of education and marital status among the population of the city of Tetouan through a survey. The SF-36 was administered to a sample selected by quotas containing 385 subjects over the age of 16 living in Tetouan city, northern Morocco.
The different dimensions of the SF-36 measured depend on the level of education and tend to increase with increasing level of study. The illiterate people have significantly low scores for the majority of dimensions. However, university people report a better Health-Related Quality of Life.
Marital status determines also the HRQOL of our population. Indeed single persons have higher scores for dimensions mainly related to physical health. As for the married persons, they have high scores for dimensions mainly related to mental health. However, divorced persons have lower scores than singles and married for all sizes, and widowed persons who have the lowest scores.
Author Keywords: Health-related quality of life, Morocco, Physical health, Mental health, Social health.
Abstract: (french)
Les mesures de la qualité de vie en relation avec la santé (QVRS) en population générale comportent de multiples applications potentielles, comme la surveillance de l'évolution de l'état de santé de la population, l'évaluation des performances des politiques de santé publique menées, l'identification de populations à risque ou l'aide à l'élaboration d'interventions. Cependant, peu d'études en ce sens ont été réalisées au Maroc. Ce travail vise à étudier la QVRS selon le niveau d'étude et l'état matrimonial chez la population générale de la ville de Tétouan à travers une enquête avec questionnaire. Le SF-36 a été administré chez un échantillon choisi par quotas contenant 385 sujets de plus de 16 ans et vivant dans la ville de Tétouan au nord du Maroc.
Les différentes dimensions du SF-36 mesurées dépendent du niveau d'étude et tendent à augmenter avec l'augmentation du niveau d'étude : les analphabètes présentent des scores significativement bas pour la majorité des dimensions, par contre, les universitaires expriment une meilleure qualité de vie en relation avec la santé.
L'état matrimonial détermine également la QVRS de notre population. En effet, les célibataires ont des scores plus hauts pour les dimensions principalement en rapport avec la santé physique, alors que les mariés ont des scores hauts pour les dimensions principalement en rapport avec la santé psychique. Par contre, les divorcés ont des scores inférieurs aux célibataires et mariés pour toutes les dimensions, ainsi que les veufs qui présentent les scores les plus bas.
Author Keywords: Qualité de vie en relation avec la santé, Maroc, Santé physique, Santé psychique, Santé sociale.
How to Cite this Article
Latifa EL EMRANI, Abdenbi BENDRISS, and Meftaha SENHAJI, “Assessment of health-related quality of life in the population of Tetouan (Morocco) using the SF-36: the influence of level of education and marital status,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 815–822, August 2014.
