J Agric Med Community Health.  2009 Dec;34(3):291-302.

Quality of Life, Perceived Health Status, Pain, and Difficulty of Activity of Daily Living of Degenerative Arthritis Patient in Island Residents

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  • 1Department of Nursing, Mokpo Catholic University, Korea. mslee@mcu.ac.kr

Abstract


OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study was to identify and relationships among quality of life, perceived health status, pain and difficulty of daily activity with degenerative arthritis living in island residents.
METHODS
The participants were 601 degenerative arthritis patients. Data were collected using structured questionnaires from June 23th to Oct. 08th, 2008 and analyzed using the SPSS 12.0 program. and it included descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-square-test, Pearson correlation coefficient.
RESULTS
The mean quality of life score was 115.87, perceived health status was 4.40, pain was 6.31 and difficulty of daily activity was 77.62. On the demographic variables, age, living arrangement, level of economics showed significant difference for the quality of life and sex and age showed significant difference for the perceived health status, pain, difficulty of daily activity. On the disease-related variables, duration of disease, use of analgesic drug showed significant difference for the dependent variables. There was a significant positive correlation among the quality of life, perceived health status, significant negative correlation pain and difficulty of daily activity.
CONCLUSIONS
These results suggested that nursing intervention program including pain reduction, enhancing the perceived health status, ADL abilities and quality of life were necessary for the osteoarthritis patients in island residents

Keyword

Degenerative arthritis; Quality of life; Perceived health status; Pain; Difficulty of activity of daily living

MeSH Terms

Activities of Daily Living
Humans
Osteoarthritis
Quality of Life
Residence Characteristics
Surveys and Questionnaires
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