Comparison of Health-related Qualities of Korean Elderly Men and Women
AUTHORS
Young-Ju Jee,Department of nursing, Kyungnam university
Sam-Sook Kim,Department of Nursing, Daedong College
ABSTRACT
This is a descriptive study conducting a secondary analysis of the raw data from the 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to compare the factors influencing quality of life in elderly men and women. For the study subjects, elderly men and women aged 65 or older were selected, a total of 8127 data items. Selecting only those subjects who properly responded to the data items necessary for the study gave a final total of 1384 used for the analysis. General Characteristics, Average daily sleep time, the level of usual stress, Depression level for two consecutive weeks, Diet economy state, Diagnosis disease sum, Health care, and Quality of life (EQ-5D) of the subjects were used for the analysis. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients using the SPSS 20.0 program. The results showed that the average quality of life (EQ-5D) for men and women was 0.91±0.13 and 0.85±0.17, respectively. The quality of life showed a significant correlation with Age (r=-.249, p<.001), Body image (r=-.138, p<.001), and Depression level for two consecutive weeks (r=-.438, p<.001) in men, and with Age (r=-.181, p<.001), level of education (r=-.317, p<.001), Depression level for two consecutive weeks (r=.438, p<.001), Diet economy state (r=-.175, p<.001), and Health care (r=-.135, p<.001) in women. These study results suggest that application of the intervention program for elderly people’s quality of life should differ in its contents according to the participants’ gender.
KEYWORDS
Sleep, Stress, Depression, Quality of life
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