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1. The Association between Levels of Physical Activity and Lifestyle, Life Expectancy, and Quality of Life in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease.

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Gholamalishahi, Shima, Hosseini, Seyed Ali, Ettorre, Evaristo, Mannocci, Alice, Okechukwu, Chidiebere Emmanuel, Keshavarz, Mohamad Javad, and La Torre, Giuseppe

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*PHYSICAL activity, *ALZHEIMER'S patients, *LIFE expectancy, *QUALITY of life
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Background: Engaging in physical activity could help improve the quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The objective of this study was to determine the association between the levels of physical activity and lifestyle, life expectancy, and quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease in Iran and Italy. Methods: A total of 165 participants from Iran and Italy were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. In Iran, 85 patients participated in the study. In Italy, we enrolled 80 patients at the Sapienza University teaching hospital, Policlinico Umberto 1 in Rome. The inclusion criteria in this study include patients over 60 years old, non-smokers, and non-users of antidepressants and hypnotics. Results: The results of Tukey's post hoc test of the study conducted in Iran showed that the lifestyle of patients with moderate (p = 0.001) and low (p = 0.009) physical activity levels was significantly better than inactive patients. Life expectancy in patients with moderate physical activity levels was significantly higher than inactive patients (p = 0.011). The quality of life was significantly better in patients with moderate (p = 0.001) and low (p = 0.002) physical activity levels than inactive patients. On the other hand, the findings of Tukey's post hoc test of the study in Italy showed that the quality of life in patients with low (p = 0.001) and moderate physical activity levels (p = 0.01) was significantly higher than inactive patients. Conclusions: A low to moderate level of physical activity could be associated with an improved lifestyle, life expectancy, and quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease compared to inactivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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2. Lifestyle and Life Expectancy Questionnaire: validation and assessment in an Italian sample

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Gholamalishahi, Shima., Mannocci, Alice., Ettorre, Evaristo., La Torre, Giuseppe., and Okechukwu, Chidiebere Emmanuel.

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lifestyle, Psychometrics, hope, Reproducibility of Results, alzheimer’s disease, questionnaires, Middle Aged, health-related behaviors, Life Expectancy, Italy, Surveys and Questionnaires, Quality of Life, Humans, Life Style, life expectancy, Language
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the relia-bility and validity of the lifestyle (Miller-Smith) and life expectancy (Schneider) questionnaires in the Italian setting in order to make this instrument available for the determination of lifestyle and hope level in the different domains of everyday life.Before testing their psychometric properties, the original versions of the two questionnaires, lifestyle (Miller-Smith) and life expectancy (Schneider), were translated into the Italian language. We tested the instrument's psychometric properties on a sample of 18 patients over 60 years old with Alzheimer's disease in the Sapienza University of Rome teaching hospital, policlinico Umberto 1. Internal consistency was considered to assess the reliability of the results across items within the adopted scale by using Cronbach's α coefficient. Using Kolmogorov-Smirnov's test, the normality distribution was evaluated to guarantee the applicability of a parametric or non-parametric test. The software used to analyze data was SPSS version 26 for Windows.According to the outcome of our statistical analysis, the lifestyle scale showed high overall internal consistency, and the Cron-bach's α coefficient for the total 20-item scale was 0.80 in the Italian population. On the other hand, using the 12-item questionnaire about life expectancy resulted in a high overall internal consistency of 0.93, according to the Cronbach's alpha test.The outcome of our study shows that the Italian versions of the lifestyle (Miller-Smith) and life expectancy (Schneider) questionnaires demonstrated good psychometric properties and good characteristics of factorial validity for future epidemiological studies aimed at evaluating lifestyle and lifestyle expectancy in the Italian population and can as well be used in clinical practice and research.

Published
2022

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