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GONZALES ZUNIGA DE LAS CASAS, Nancy Elsa; PEREZ COLLANTES, Rafael Diego  y  REMIGIO, Claudia Katherina Gonzales. Influence of ICT on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in older adults at a Health Center. Vive Rev. Salud [online]. 2022, vol.5, n.13, pp.110-123.  Epub 19-Feb-2022. ISSN 2664-3243.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistavive.v5i13.135.

When individuals grow older they become more vulnerable to events that affect their quality of life, these events may correspond to social, environmental, psychological and/or physical aspects; in this context, the present study aimed to determine the influence of ICTs on health-related quality of life in older adults in the maternal and child center of Comas, Peru. The research is of a basic type of explanatory level. The method was hypothetical-deductive and the design was non-experimental. The population consisted of 256 older adults and the sample was a non-probabilistic sample of 100 individuals. The instruments used were the WHOQOL-OLD test designed by the WHO and the ICT attitudes test. The application of the instruments was individual and lasted approximately 40 minutes. According to the results, the incidence of the variable attitude towards ICT on the dependent variable, quality of life of older adults, is explained by the chi-square value of 17.310 and p significance value of 0.003, so it is concluded that ICT have an influence on the health-related quality of life of older adults in a health center in Comas, Peru.

Palabras clave : Cognitive; Affective component; Behavioral component; Active aging.

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