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    Calidad de vida de los adultos mayores mestizos e indígenas del cantón Nabón. Cuenca.2017
    (2018) Rodríguez Astudillo, Marco Andrés; Verdugo Carrión, Zoila Elizabeth; Parra Parra, Jorge Leonidas
    INTRODUCTION. The quality of life is a category that can be determined from a multiple of perspectives. As far as the present study is concerned, was sought a vision related to health and measure through the application of a series of tools that have been used in national and international studies. OBJECTIVE. Determine the quality of life of the indigenous and mestizos older adults of the Nabón canton. MATERIAL AND METHODS. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study with a sample of 150 indigenous and 224 mestizos, which can be applied to assess the quality of life as: WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD, complementing with the Yesavage test, which indicates the existence of depression and the Katz index that allows the assessment of functionality, to evaluate a background the quality of life in the aspects: psychological and physical. The data will be tabulated, analyzed and presented in tables. RESULTS: of the 374 older adults, between 65 and 97 years old, with an average age of 77.77 years, predominantly female (53.7%) compared to male (46.3%). The quality of life in general was normal (58.3%). A 53.7% presents depression, being more prevalent in the indigenous older adults. Functionally, 88.5% is independent according to the Katz index and among them, the most vulnerable population is indigenous.