Customer satisfaction analysis of the healthy elderly to investigate the association among happiness, health status, and well-being using the Happiness & Health Feeling Scale.
Kaori Teraoka, Minako Suzuki, Yuito Ueda and 1 others
PMID 31645800WHAT IT FOUND
In 17 healthy elderly, eating, exercise, and pleasure correlated with high well-being.
Self-esteem items showed low scores despite high well-being. This suggests these factors are priority areas for improvement in this group.
Key findings
01Factors related to eating, exercise, and pleasure showed both high scores and high well-being.
02Factors related to self-esteem showed low scores and high well-being, identifying them as priority improvement fields.
03Overall, a negative correlation was found between subjective well-being and the scores on the 18 items in the Happiness & Health Feeling Scale.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they found
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What it does not show
The study surveyed only 17 participants, with 82.4% being female, so results may not generalize to other populations. The data was cross-sectional, so causality between factors cannot be inferred. The age of participants was reported as 77.8 ± 77.6 (mean, SD), which is an unusually wide and potentially erroneous standard deviation that limits confidence in the sample characteristics.
Declared interests
Authors declare no conflicts of interest associated with this manuscript.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume that low self-esteem scores in this small sample indicate a general deficit in healthy elderly populations. The negative correlation between well-being and scale scores is counter-intuitive and requires careful interpretation before guiding practice.