Titre : | Life satisfaction and quality in Korean War veterans five decades after the war. (2009) |
Auteurs : | J.F. IKIN ; W.K. HARREX ; HENDERSON (S.) : AUS. John Curtin School of Medical Research. The Australian National University. Canberra. ; K.W.A. HORSLEY ; JELFS (P.L.) : AUS. Cancer Institute New South Wales. Eveleigh. ; D.P. MCKENZIE ; MOORE (M.R.) : AUS. National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology. The University of Queensland. Brisbane. ; M.R. SIM ; E.J. WILSON ; Australian Government Department of Veterans'Affairs. Canberra. AUS ; Monash Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health. Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine. Monash University. Melbourne. AUS |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Journal of epidemiology and community health (vol. 63, n° 5, 2009) |
Pagination : | 359-365 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Satisfaction ; Corée ; Guerre ; Asie ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0x8lkFI. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background : Military service is considered to be a hidden variable underlying current knowledge about well-being in the elderly. This study aimed to examine life satisfaction and quality of life in Australia's surviving male Korean War veterans and a community comparison group, and to investigate any association with war deployment-related factors. Methods : Participants completed a postal questionnaire which included the Life Satisfaction Scale, the brief World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-Bref) questionnaire and the Combat Exposure Scale. Results : Korean War veterans reported significantly lower Percentage Life Satisfaction (PLS) and quality of life scores on four WHOQOL-Bref domains, compared with similarly aged Australian men (each p value |