Calidad de vida y factores biopsicosociales en patologías médicas crónicas

Abstract

Based on a transectional design, quality of life and its relationship to biopsychosocial factors was evaluated in 240 participants, 120 of whom where living with a chronic medical pathology of Primary Health Attention The main instrument used was the WHOQoL- Bref of the WHO. Satisfaction with health, positive affect, the affect balance, satisfaction with life, and mediation efficiency, were positively related to quality of life; negative affect was inversely correlated to quality of life. There was no correlation of quality of life with sex, social support, and time with the illness. © 2009 Sociedad Chilena de Psicología Clínica.