Follow-up study on Activities of Daily Living of the Elderly in Rural Community

농촌지역노인의 일상생활 동작능력에 관한 추적연구

This study was conducted to find out the factors which have an effect on the rural aged's natural history by disability in Activities of Daily Living(ADL) and ADL decline with 475 old people which were chosen except the dead 90 and unconfirmable 56 old people by performing follow-up survey for 4 years since 1993 on the basis of presurveyed data about 621 home old people over 60 years residing in 13 villages at Kangdong-myon, Kyongju-city, Kyongsangbuk-do Province, Korea. Such activities of daily living as bathing, dressing, going to toilet, transfer, feeding and continence were examined. 1. In the follow-up survey for 4 years, the ADL distribution of the dead was remarkably lower than the subject group. 2. It was also shown in the 4-year follow-up survey that 82.1% of high ADL group maintained high ADL while 77.8% of low ADL group died within 4 years. 3. The occurrence percentage of disabilities of each group by ADL item for 4 years appeared high in such an order as bathing, continence, dressing, going to toilet, transfer and feeding. 6.7%(8.1% for female and 4.6% for male) of the old people who were the high ADL group at the time of the first survey had disabilities that occurred after 4 years. 4. In the change of ADL according to general characteristics used to analyse the factors which have an effect on ADL decline, there was a significant difference in age and job, that is, the jobless old people had the higher degree of ADL decline. In the change of ADL according to behavioral pattern, for the male old people there was a significant difference in support of living expenses and subjective health condition. In this case, the degree of ADL decline was higher if they depended on their sons & daughters or spouses and felt that they were not healthy.

일부농촌지역 노인들의 일상생활 동작능력(Activities of Daily Living : ADL)장애의 자연사와 ADL지하에 영향을 미치는 요인을 검토하기 이해 1993년 경상북도 경주시 강동면 13개리에 거주하고 있는 60세이상 재택고령자 621명의 사전조사된 자료를 기본으로 4년간의 추적조사를 시행하여 사망자 90과 조사불능군 56명을 제외한 475명을 대상자로 선정하였으며 목욕, 옷입기, 화장실이용, 일어서기, 식사하기, 실금의 일상생활 동작능력을 조사하였다. 2) 4년간의 추적조사에서는 고ADL의 82.1%가 고ADL을 유지하였고, 저ADL의 77.8%가 4년내에 사망하였다. 3) 4년간의 ADL항목별 가능군의 장애 발생율은 목욕이 가장 많았고, 실금, 옷입기, 화장실이용, 일어서기, 식사하기의 순서로 나타났으며, 제1회 조사시 고 ADL군의 6.7%(여자의 8.1%, 남자의 4.6%)에서 4년후 장애가 발생했다. 4) ADL저하에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하기 위한 일반적 특성에 따른 ADL의 변화에서는 연령과 직업에 있어 유의한 차이를 보여 노화가 될수록, 현재 직업이 없는 노인일수록 ADL감소율이 높게 나타났고, 형태에 따른 ADL의 변화에서는 남자노인의 생활비 부담과 주관식 건강상태에서 유의한 차이를 보여 남자노인은 자녀가 배우자에 의존할수록, 주관적 건강상태에서는 건강하지 않다고 느낄수록 ADL저하율이 높았다.