Quality of life of disaster victims / Jon Edward Jurilla

The present study seeks to determine the quality of life and the socio-demographic characteristics of disaster victims. It specifically aims to describe the quality of life of disaster victims in CABCOM Evacuation Centr in Pampanga according to the scores in six domains: physical, psychological, level of independence, social relationships, environment and spirituality/religion/personal beliefs and to determine the total quality of life score. This cross-sectional study found that the majority of the respondents were female (59.8%), married (78.2%), high school educated (53.4%) with a mean age of 36.78 years. The scoring of the questions is the summation of the responses to the questions that were set on a scale of 1 to 5. The author made an assumption that the total of the individual scores would be reflective of the whole domain being assessed. A category of the total scores of each domain was set as being excellent (5), good (4), fair (3), poor (2), or very poor (1). Based on this assumption, inferences were drawn. The respondents considered the physical component of their lives, the psychologoical component, the level of independence component, the social-relationship component, and the environmental as being fair. They considered the spirituality/religion/personal beliefs component as being good. The total quality of life is fair with a score of 34,743. The major limitation of this study is that there is no present agreement on the computation of the total quality of life scores. There is also no grading system that would indicate whether a domain score is indictive of a diminished quality of life in the individual domain score.

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