Quality of Life and its Influencing Factors of 150 Aged Patients with Chronic Diseases
- VernacularTitle:150名老年慢性病患者的生活质量评估
- Author:
Bixiu HE
;
Xuebing LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Aged;
Chronic,disease;
Quality of life
- From:
Journal of Chinese Physician
2001;0(04):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To understand current situation of live quality of old patients and to explore its influencing factors.Methods Age of all subjects more than 60 years who was aged in-patients with a chronic disease in geriatric ward,department of XiangYa Hospital. General physical examination were executed. Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90) and Quality of Life (QOL) scales were measured.Results ⑴The problems of QOL and mentality were occurred in 78%,77 33% respectively of the patients. ⑵Multiple linear regression showed that financial condition, mentality, age and physical disease were major factors that affected the patients' quality of life . The linear equation was YQOL=36 967-0 734 X age+2 012 X financial-0 0352 X mentality-0 712 X diseases(P