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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.3.479

Disease and Health Behavior of Low-Weight Elderly Living Alone : Focusing on the Community Health Survey 2014  

Kim, Jong-Im (College of Nursing, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Yu-Mi (Research Institute For medical Sciences, Chungnam National University)
Nam, Mi-Ra (Department of Nursing, Kunsan College of Nursing)
Choi, Ji-Yeon (Department of Nursing, Gimcheon University)
Son, Gi-Yeon (Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Konyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.19, no.3, 2018 , pp. 479-488 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate factors affecting low body weight of solitary elderly people by grasping the illness and health behavior of elderly living alone. Using the raw data of the community health survey from 2014, the data of 922 elderly living alone who are 65 years or older were used for the final analysis. Data were analyzed by technical analysis statistics, The Rao Scott $x^2$ test, and logistic regression analysis using the composite analysis module of the SPSS/WIN 22.0 program. The results of this study showed that elderly living alone had a high percentage of chronic diseases as well as poor health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, poor eating habits, difficulties in dentistry due to dentures, and poor subjective health status. Result of logistic regression analysis the risk probability of low-weight due to gender of the elderly living alone is as follows. Risk of low body weight because of smoking was 3.004 times among occasional smokers in women and the elderly, while risk of low body weight due to walking amount is less than 3 days the possibility that the person walking is low is 1.420 times significantly higher. When feeling subjective stress, the possibility of low body weight was 2.220 times greater for male elderly and 1.282 times for female elderly. The probability of low body weight for a person with a poor subjective health level was 3.633 times for male elderly and 1.590 times for female elderly. Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to establish appropriate nursing intervention and management strategies to improve health behavior of low body weight elderly living alone. It is also necessary to conduct additional studies considering various variables such as physical, psychological, and social characteristics of low-weight elderly individuals.
Keywords
Community Health Survey; Disease; Elderly Living Alone; Health Behavior; Low-weight;
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