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Health-Related Factors Influencing the Quality of Life of Rural Elderly Subjects - Activities of Daily Living, Cognitive Functions, Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Nutritional Assessment


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Health-Related Factors Influencing the Quality of Life of Rural Elderly Subjects - Activities of Daily Living, Cognitive Functions, Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Nutritional Assessment

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Korean J Community Nutr. 2012;17(6):772-781
Publication date (electronic) : 2012 December 31
doi : https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2012.17.6.772
Mee Sook Lee
Department of Food and Nutrition, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea.
Corresponding author: Mee Sook Lee, Department of Food and Nutrition, Hannam University, #461-6 Jeonmin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-811, Korea. Tel: (042) 629-8794, Fax: (042) 629-8789, meesook@hnu.kr
Received 2012 December 08; Revised 2012 December 24; Accepted 2012 December 24.

Abstract

In order to supply the reference data to define the quality of life of the rural agricultural elderly population in the simplified steps, the data were collected by personal visits to 232 elder people over 65 (89 males and 143 females) in Sunchang area. The survey was conducted with written questionnaires concerning the quality of life, health-related habits, basic physical functions and cognitive behavior. The prevalence of the degenerative diseases were assessed by anthropometric and biochemical determinations. The averaged overall quality of life represented by EQ-5D index with Nam's model was calculated to be 0.865 ± 0.1509, and the percentages of people below the average were 38% (low QOL group) and 62% (high QOL group) were found to be the above the average. Generally, the subjects with male gender, higher educational background, higher self-rated health status, higher social activities were belonged to the high QOL group. The high QOL group had higher scores of daily living activities KADL and IADL, and lower risks in cognitive functions K-MMSE and depression scale GDS. There was no statistically significant correlation between biochemical indexes of blood and cognitive function and EQ-5D scores when the results were adjusted for age and gender. There were significant differences in nutritional assessment determined by the MNA between the high and low QOL groups. The low QOL group showed inferior nutritional status. The rapidly measurable factors of the quality of life of rural elderly were turned out to be physical activity scores and the simplified nutritional status measurement.

Keywords: quality of life; EQ-5D index; ADL; MNA; elderly

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Table 1

General characteristics of EQ-5D groups of subject

Table 1

1) N (%)

*: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01 by χ2-test

Table 2

Comparison of health related habits in EQ-5D groups of subject

Table 2

1) N (%)

**: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001 by χ2-test

Table 3

Comparison of MNA(mini-nutritional assessment) in EQ-5D groups of subject

Table 3

1) p-value of the χ2-test: ***: Significantly different at p < 0.001

2) N (%)

Table 4

States of activities of daily living, cognitive function, and depression by EQ-5D groups of subject

Table 4

1) p-value of the χ2-test: *, ***: Significantly different at p < 0.05, p < 0.001

2) Score of the Katz-Activities of Daily Living

3) N (%)

4) Score of the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

5) Score of the Korea Mini-Mental State Examination

6) Score of the Geriatric Depression Scale

Table 5

Prevalence of disease in EQ-5D groups of subject

Table 5

1) p-value of the χ2-test: *, **: Significantly different at p < 0.05, p < 0.01

2) Anemia assessment: below 13 g/dL hemoglobin for male, below 12 g/dL hemoglobin for female

3) N (%)

Table 6

Correlation coefficient among EQ-5D index, biochemical indices and nutritional assessment adjusted by age and sex

Table 6

1) SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, TC: total cholesterol, TG: triglyceride, Glu: fasting blood glucose, BMI: body mass index, KADL: Katz-activities of daily living, IADL: instrumental activities of daily living, GDS: geriatric depression scale, KMMSE: Korea mini-mental state examination, MNA: mini-nutritional assessment

2) Pearson's correlation coefficient

***: p < 0.001