Physical Activity and Fruit-vegetable Consumption Helps to Improve the Quality of Life of the Elderly in Taiwan

Autor: Min-Hua Wu, 巫敏華
Rok vydání: 2014
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 102
Backgroud:Many factors can impact the quality of life of the elderly. Higher Physical Activity and higher Fruit-vegetable (FV) Consumption on the quality of life of older people are helpful. However, the combined effect is unknown. Objective:This study aims to investigate the physical Activity of FV consumption and improve the quality of life of the elderly in Taiwan results. Method:In this study, the data source as "Taiwan Longitudinal Survey on Aging(TLSA) " in 1999 and 2007 databases. In 1999 over 4440 cases of 53 years as an object, excluding death and unfinished respondents, a total of 1525 data insufficiency in subsequent eight years. Real effective case for the 2915.QoL was assessed using the SWLS(Satisfaction with Life Scale) and was partly adopted from LSIA(Life Satisfaction Index A). Use SPSS/Windows21.0 software was followed by eight years of quality of life in elderly statistical analysis combined FV consumption and physical activity. The Regression models was controlled for baseline demographic, socioeconomic, health behavior, health and disease status variables. Results:To physical activity and low FV consumption frequency were used as control, physical activity and FV consumption frequencies are high, their quality of life, then eight years old 2.09 times increase in satisfaction (P = 0.002); High physical activity their quality of life increased by 2.44 times (P = 0.019); higher FV consumption were 2.26 times increase in satisfaction (P = 0.001); moderate physical activity or FV consumption 7-9 times weekly were satisfactory quality of life degree increased 1.8 times (P = 0.017). Conclusions:The results of this study shows that higher physical activity combining with higher FV consumption, which can effectively improve the quality of life of the elderly in Taiwan. This result highlights of the importance which were higher physical activity and higher FV consumption, this health behavior is safe, effective and cost-effective, and can save the country medical expenses.
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