Options
都會區老人的日常活動量、健康體能及健康生活品質之追蹤研究
Date Issued
2003-07-31
Date
2003-07-31
Author(s)
陳思遠
DOI
912314B002356
Abstract
Disease prevention and health promotion are the focus of interest among health-care
professionals in recent years. Physical activity or exercise has been proved to be beneficial for
health. For the elderly, the relationship between physical activities and health is becoming an
important issue to be investigated. Health-related physical fitness, which is closely related to
health, operationally has four main components including cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular
strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Health-related quality of life
(HRQOL) is a summary measure of health status including physical, mental, and social
functioning. HRQOL has been widely applied to quantitatively evaluate health or treatment
efficacy in medical research. The aim of this study is to measure the change of mental function,
independence in activities of daily living (ADL), amount of physical activities, health-related
physical fitness, and health-related quality of life in a cohort of the urban elderly since the
previous evaluation in 1999-2000. Study subjects were recruited from a cohort of 622 elderly
persons who lived in Chung-Cheng District of Taipei City and received comprehensive
evaluation by our study team 1999-2000. All study subjects were evaluated with “Modified
Baecke Questionnaire (Chinese Version)”, “Short From –36 (Chinese Version)”, fitness test,
mental function, and ADL function. There were 445 elderly people finished the above tests in
this study with a follow-up rate of 75%. The mean age of our 308 older men was 77.8±4.7 years
old and 76.8±4.3 years old for 137 older women. Our findings showed the amount of physical
activity of older men was significantly higher than older women, but decrease of physical
activity during follow-up was noted only in older men. The decrease of physical activity as
aging was significantly correlated with the deterioration of health-related physical fitness among
2
older men. There was no detected correlation between the decrease of physical activity and the
change of health-related quality of life among our study cohort.
professionals in recent years. Physical activity or exercise has been proved to be beneficial for
health. For the elderly, the relationship between physical activities and health is becoming an
important issue to be investigated. Health-related physical fitness, which is closely related to
health, operationally has four main components including cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular
strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Health-related quality of life
(HRQOL) is a summary measure of health status including physical, mental, and social
functioning. HRQOL has been widely applied to quantitatively evaluate health or treatment
efficacy in medical research. The aim of this study is to measure the change of mental function,
independence in activities of daily living (ADL), amount of physical activities, health-related
physical fitness, and health-related quality of life in a cohort of the urban elderly since the
previous evaluation in 1999-2000. Study subjects were recruited from a cohort of 622 elderly
persons who lived in Chung-Cheng District of Taipei City and received comprehensive
evaluation by our study team 1999-2000. All study subjects were evaluated with “Modified
Baecke Questionnaire (Chinese Version)”, “Short From –36 (Chinese Version)”, fitness test,
mental function, and ADL function. There were 445 elderly people finished the above tests in
this study with a follow-up rate of 75%. The mean age of our 308 older men was 77.8±4.7 years
old and 76.8±4.3 years old for 137 older women. Our findings showed the amount of physical
activity of older men was significantly higher than older women, but decrease of physical
activity during follow-up was noted only in older men. The decrease of physical activity as
aging was significantly correlated with the deterioration of health-related physical fitness among
2
older men. There was no detected correlation between the decrease of physical activity and the
change of health-related quality of life among our study cohort.
Subjects
aged
physical activity
physical fitness
health-related quality of life
cohort study
Publisher
臺北市:國立臺灣大學醫學院復健科
Coverage
計畫年度:91;起迄日期:2002-08-01/2003-07-31
Type
other
File(s)
Loading...
Name
912314B002356.pdf
Size
77.63 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):4a4e7d963aba35fa8c06be89874b8334