Correlative factor analysis of loss of functional status in healthy elderly people
- VernacularTitle:健康老年人功能状态丧失相关因素分析
- Author:
Jianmin XIANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2005;9(47):144-146
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Health status of elderly people is an important problem concerned by the whole society. To find the way of preventing loss of functional status of daily life for elderly people is the key to generally improving the quality of life in elderly people.OBJECTIVE: To observe the main characteristics of function loss in healthy elderly people and analyze the influencing factors of the change of functional indexes in elderly people in normal functional status.DESIGN: Contrast observation; Logistic analysis.SETTING: Student's Office, Shangrao Normal College.PARTICIPANTS: All the data were from the sampling questionnaire survey on health status of 1 700 people including retired cadres and employees from 11 cities of Jiangxi province. The survey was conducted by Senile Physical Education Association of Jiangxi Province in January 2004.METHODS: The test was performed depending on 4 indexes in physical self-maintenance scale including dressing, taking food, bathing and toileting along with other indexes of shopping, calling, riding, going upstairs to the third floor, walking for 1 000 m, taking things by fingers and squatting & standing. These 11 indexes were used for evaluating the functional status of daily life in elderly people. According to international definition,people with difficulty in one or more indexes could be defined as ability loss of self-cave in daily life. The participants were demanded to give the score of difficulty in independently completing each activity including not difficult (1), somewhat difficult (2), very difficult (3), completely impossible (4). The total sum of 11 scores was defined as functional status index of daily life. Its value reflected the whole situation of functional status of daily life in elderly people. The higher the index was, the worse the functional status was. Comparison was conducted among groups of different gender and age, and Logistic regression analysis was used for evaluationand analysis.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Evaluation of functional index, function loss rate of daily life, index in independent physical self-maintenance ability of daily life.RESULTS: ① Normal functional status of elderly people is various due to the different age, gender, constitution, marital status, living situation,employment history, economic status and education background etc. ② As far as function loss rate of daily life in healthy elderly people was concerned, male was higher than female, and people taking part-time jobs and rehired after retirement were higher than other retirees. When it came to loss rate of motor function of lower limbs, widowed people were higher than not widowed, and the higher the education, the better motor functional status of lower limbs the male had, while the situation was reversed for female.CONCLUSION: Loss rate of normal functional status of elderly people significantly decreases as their age increases, and it is relevant to the complexity and difficulty of activities of life. Normal functional status of elderly people is related to social support, economic status, psychological and mental status.
