Quality of life: Review of its conceptual aspects
Calidad de vida: revisión de sus aspectos conceptuales
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There are a broad confusion around the term «Quality of life» and authors use different approaches to the concept from very different perspectives. The objective of this review is present to the clinician the background in understanding the concept of Quality of life and present an updated model of the concept of quality of life. Although conceptual differences in the use of the term are far to be resolved, the multidimensional nature of the construct generated by the quality of life model give patients and clinicians a new field of research and a common pathway to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
Five different perspectives underlie the evolutions of the term «Quality of life»: a.) a psychological approach, b.) the utility concept, c.) community – centered concept, d.) the return to the normal life concept, and e.) the principle of distance.
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