Quality of Life and Its Correlated Factors among Elderly People with Diabetes in a Community

Autor: Sea-Ja Kim, Nam-Sook Seo, In-Soon Park, Young-Jae Kim, Seung-Ja Kang
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: The Korean Journal of Health Service Management. 8:75-86
ISSN: 2093-5986
DOI: 10.12811/kshsm.2014.8.1.075
Popis: The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting quality of life among elderly people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in a community. The design of this study was an exploratory survey. The subjects were 268 adults aged over 65 years with DM in a community. The data were collected from July to October, 2011 and analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression by using SPSS/WIN 20.0 program. The quality of life was positively associated with self care behavior (r=.226, p
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