Factors Associated with Quality of Life in Long-term Care Residents: a case study in Taipei County
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Li, Yi-Jen
Abstract
Reasons to stay in long-term care facility varies from person to person, and we think everyone who has normal cognitive ability has right to make decision that relevant to themselves. To enhance long-term care residents’ quality of life (QOL), first of all, we should try to find out factors that associated with quality of life. This study is interested in exploring the factors the affect the QOL of those living in the long-term care in Taipei County.
We recruited all residents in the facility except residents who can’t speak clearly , with dementia or unconsciousness. We examined the residents’ QOL by the WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version , and we recorded residents’ sociodemographic characteristics, health status (ADL, IADL), factors of accommodation, and satisfaction of services. Due to the residents age are higher than the normal. We conduct the data by Microsoft Excel 2010, and we analyzed the data by SAS 9.2 version and IBM SPSS Statistics 19.0 version.
There were 100 residents that attend this study, and most of them are female. The average age were 84 and most of them lived in single room. The average IADL scores of retirement home subjects were 11.96, and the average ADL scores of residential care homes and long-term care subjects were 60.31. Most of the object that subjects lived with before accommodation were their children, and most of main reason of accommodation were retirement planning. Most of main decision-maker of accommodation was subjects themselves, and most of subjects attended the decision-making of accommodation. The average satisfaction scores of retirement home, residential care homes and long-term care were 40.10 and 35.5. The average scores of overall quality of life were 3.66~3.98, and the average scores were 15.79 in physical health domain, 15.17 in psychological health domain, 15.31 in social relationships domain, and 16.61 in environmental domain. The average scores of total quality of life were 108.75.
We found that sex has correlation on attend the decision-making of accommodation or not, and health status might be influenced by sex in retirement home. Satisfaction of services and Quality of life might be influenced by room types and main reason of accommodation. Quality of life also might be influenced by main decision-maker of accommodation and attend the decision-making of accommodation or not. The results showed that there exists a positive correlation between satisfaction of services and Quality of life, and there exists a negative correlation between residential care homes and long-term care subjects’ age and quality of life. We used multiple entered linear regression analysis to validate the predictors of quality of life that we assumed. The results showed quality of life of long-term care residents could be predicted by room types, attend the decision-making of accommodation or not, and satisfaction of services.
Subjects
quality of life
long-term care
satisfaction of services
decision-maker of accommodation
Type
thesis
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