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KMID : 0387319980080020149
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Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration
1998 Volume.8 No. 2 p.149 ~ p.165
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Health Status and the Quality of Life of the Rural Elderly
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Choe Heon
Kim Han-Joong
Jin Ki-Nam
Joo Kyung-Shik
Lee Kyu-Sik
Sohn Myong-Sei
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the health status on the quality of life of the rural elderly, and to examine the conditional effect of socialsupport for that influence. ´Quality of life´ used in this study was defined by unidimensional approach. The data were collected by conducting individual interviews with 296 rural elderly people aged 60 and the above who were living in one township of Kangwonddo, between the time period of October and November 1995.
The main findings are as follows : 1. Hierarchiacal regression analyses were carried out to examine the relative contribution of three set of variables on the quality of life. The first step, which included sociodemographic factors showed that the coefficient of determination(R2) was 8% and income was a statically significant variable. The second step, by adding health related factors, revealed that the R2 was increased to 34% by 26% point and the degree of health recognition was the statistically significant variable. The third step, by projecting additionally social support related variables revelaed that the R2 was 42%. 2. The conditional effect of social support was analyzed to examine the influence the health status has on the quality of life. The results are as follows : 1) The IADL and the degree of social contact interacted, resulting in that the higher degree of social contact boosted th stronger effect of IADL. 2) The effect of subjective health recognition on the quality of life is depended upon degree of family contact. 3) The effect of eyesight on the quality of life is depended upon degree of satisfaction in social relation. the lower the degree of social support was, the bigger the influence of health related variables affecting quality of life became.
This study explains that health status is a major factor in predicting the quality of life of the aged. Particularly the subjective health recognition was an important factor as the perception of quality of life.
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KEYWORD
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aged, quality of life, health status, social support, conditional effect
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