| Summary: | 碩士 === 美和科技大學 === 護理系健康照護碩士班 === 105 === Background and objectives : 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. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among demographic variables, health behavior, and quality of life for the elderly.
Research 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.
Findings of Research : More female than male elderly do not smoke, drink, drink tea, and do exercise; those with normal bone mineral density (BMD), those who were not vegetarians, do exercise than those with abnormal BMD and with osteoporosis. Regarding the physical and mental conditions, men report their quality of life better than women do; for the physical, mental, and environment conditions, those who graduated from senior high school or vocational high school report their quality of life better than the illiterate do; Regarding the physical, mental, and environment conditions, those who have income report their quality of life better than those who raised by children do; for the physical condition, those with less chronic diseases report their quality of life better than those with chronic diseases do; Regarding the physical and mental conditions, those with normal bone mineral density report their quality of life better than those with abnormal BMD and osteoporosis do. 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 and Suggestions : 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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