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KMID : 0379720170310020209
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2017 Volume.31 No. 2 p.209 ~ p.219
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Gender Differences in the Cognitive Function and Nutritional Status in Older Age: A Representative Nationwide Data of Korean Elders
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Shin Su-Jin
Hwang Eun-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the gender differences in the cognitive function and nutritional status among elderly people living in the community.
Methods: This study used data from the 2014 National Survey on the Elderly and focused on 10,054 respondents who answered that they did not have dementia. The Korean version of Mini-Mental State Examination for Dementia Screening and the Nutrition Screening Initiative were used. IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 was used to conduct statistical analyses.
Results: The cognitive function score was 25.30 for men, which was higher than for women. The percentage of subjects who showed cognitive decline was 25.5% for males and 50.2% for females, which was statistically significant (p<.001). There were statistically significant differences in the nutritional status between males and females (p<.001). There was a statistically significant negative correlation between the cognitive function and nutritional status in both men and women (p<.001, p<.001).
Conclusion: These results showed that the intervention to maintain cognitive functioning should be provided to elderly women with a low education level or high number of chronic diseases and medication, and an intervention to prevent the cognitive decline of the elderly should include nutritional management for health and function maintenance.
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KEYWORD
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Aged, Cognitive function, Female, Male, Nutritional status
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