AUTHOR=Cudris-Torres Lorena , Alpi Stefano Vinaccia , Barrios-Núñez Álvaro , Gaviria Arrieta Natali , Mejía Gutiérrez Jéssica , Alvis Barranco Libia , Rios-Carlys Gerson , Cuenca-Calderón Silvia E. , Bermúdez Valmore , Hernández-Lalinde Juan , Riveira Zuleta Carlos Arturo , Bahamón Marly Johana , Álvarez Herrera Juany Sofía 

TITLE=Quality of life in the older adults: The protective role of self-efficacy in adequate coping in patients with chronic diseases

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1106563

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1106563

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=The purpose of the present study was to establish the relationships between self-efficacy, perception of disease, emotional regulation, and fatigue and the health-related quality of life in older adults living in the departments of Cesar and Atlántico in Colombia and who have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. The participants were 325 older adults of both sexes, with literacy skills and no presence of cognitive impairment. We used the MOS-SF-36 questionnaire, the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire scale for measuring the perception of disease, the Stanford Patient Education Research Center's Chronic Disease Self self-efficacy questionnaire for chronic patients, the Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale, and the Fatigue Severity Questionnaire as measurement instruments. The design was non-experimental cross-sectional with a correlational scope. The results indicated that the physical function of quality of life, self-efficacy, disease perception, emotional regulation, and fatigue severity were relevant predictors, confirming that self-efficacy could be a protective factor, decreasing the probability of a participant obtaining low scores in this quality-of-life aspect.  In contrast, both disease perception and fatigue severity were identified as risk variables.