Trends in Mental and Physical Health-Related Quality of Life in Low-Income Older Persons in the United States, 2003 to 2017

JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Dec 2;2(12):e1917868. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.17868.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study of respondents to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey assesses trends between 2003 and 2017 in mental and physical health-related quality of life in low-income US individuals 60 years or older.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anxiety / epidemiology*
  • Community Mental Health Services / statistics & numerical data
  • Depression / epidemiology*
  • Female
  • Health Status
  • Health Status Indicators*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mental Health / statistics & numerical data
  • Poverty / statistics & numerical data*
  • Quality Indicators, Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
  • Quality of Life*
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • United States