A Study of the Effect of Osteoporosis to Quality of Life for the Elderly
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Science and Innovative Research (IJMSIR) - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Background: With the advent of an aging society, the elderly and their family members become physically and mentally traumatized and quality of life decline due to osteoporotic fractures and disability. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among demographic variables, health behavior, and quality of life for the elderly. Methods: This study was a cross sectional study. A semi-structured interview in the form of questionnaires including personal attributes, related variables of health behavior, and WHO Questionnaire on Quality of life: BREF-Taiwan Version, (WHOQOL-BREF) was conducted. The study samples were convenient sampling of orthopedic patients from a local hospital in southern Taiwan. During the nursing period from November 2016 to February 2017, total of the number of participants were 183, and 183 valid questionnaires were collected. All data collected went through statistical software SPSS 22 to conduct data processing and analysis. More female than male elderly do not smoke, drink, drink tea, and exercise; those with normal bone mineral density (BMD), and those who were not vegetarians, exercise more than those with abnormal BMD and with osteoporosis. Regarding the physical and mental aspects, the report of male's quality of life is better than woman's; for the physical, mental, and environment aspects, those who graduated from senior high school or vocational high school's quality of life is better than illiterate subjects; Regarding the physical, mental, and environment aspects, those who have income report their quality of life better than those who rely on children; for the physical aspect, those with less chronic diseases report their quality of life better than those with chronic diseases do; Regarding the physical and psychological aspects, the report of those with normal bone mineral density's quality of life is better than those with abnormal BMD and osteoporosis. The related factors affecting the degree of entire health satisfaction included osteoporosis, taking drugs to prevent chronic diseases, illiteracy, elementary school, the above four predicting variables can jointly explain the explained variance values of 18.5% of predicting the degree of entire health satisfaction of quality of life. Conclusions: The results of this study will be used as a reference for the healthcare givers to enhance patients to gain the understanding and healthcare of osteoporosis to improve the quality of life of patients with osteoporosis via offering the information of preventive health.
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Tsan Yang
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