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KMID : 1035720190200010001
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Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
2019 Volume.20 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.14
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The Effects of Hearing Status on the Quality of Life in the New Middle Age and Elderly
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Oh Ji-Young
Kim Seok-Hwan
Kim Hang-Sung
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Abstract
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Objectives: There are few studies which reflects of each generation’s own features, of the New Middle Age and the Elderly’s hearing status and their quality of life even though the population of old age has been weighted as baby boom generation’s entering into old age. This study is to identify the effects of the new middle age and the elderly’s hearing status on their quality of life and to prepare the customized health policies for their health promotion and quality of life improvement as well as the base line data for hearing enhancement programs.
Methods: This study was analyzed using the data of the 7th term of the National Health and Nutrition Survey of the Disease Management headquarters. Out of 8,150 adults over the age of 50 who participated in the hearing test, 3,306 were selected and analyzed.
Results: At the result of identifying the correlation of hearing status and the quality of life between the New Middle Age and the Elderly, it was confirmed that hearing loss affects low quality of life. The average of quality of life between the New Middle Age and the Elderly was 0.95 and 0.85 each, resulting in higher quality of life in New Middle Age than in the Elderly. The factors affecting the quality of life of the New Middle Age were the level of the education, household income, the type of health insurance, subjective health status. The factors affecting the quality of life of the Elderly were gender, the type of health insurance, subjective health status.
Conclusion: Hearing loss of the New Middle Age and the Elderly affects their low quality of life. Therefore the development and the provision of policy program is needed, so as to maintain and manage hearing through age-specific health education. It is expected that the second half of the New Middle Age’s life will be much happier, if not taking the treatment-oriented approach of hearing loss only but strengthening the education needed for the maintenance and the management of healthy hearing at their work place, where 50 and 60 generations’ workforce has been increased.
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KEYWORD
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Hearing Status, Quality of Life, New Middle Age and Elderly
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