Investigating the quality of life of the elderly in Iran
Investigating the quality of life of the elderly in Iran
Mohammad mahdi mohammadi,1,*zeinab sadat moosavifard,2
1. BSc in Nursing, Department of Nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 2. Department of Nursing, faculty of nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
Introduction: Quality of life is one of the measurable criteria for determining the health needs and conditions of the elderly. Measuring health-related quality of life is a way of assessing the health status of adults, and it can be used to identify factors associated with good health, maintaining good performance, and improving quality of life. Therefore, the researcher decided to conduct a study to evaluate the quality of life of the elderly.
Methods: After searching in Iranian journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, PubMed and Google SID, Google, Magiran using Persian keywords quality of life, elderly, Iran, 1654 articles were selected and after including inclusion criteria: relevance of title Subject article, availability of full text, Persian written language and exclusion criteria: sample selection from non-elderly, rural elderly Finally, 21 articles were conducted between 2005 and 2017 by census in 1398 to be included in the study.
Results: In this study, the elderly from 11 cities in Iran were included in the study. The sample size was 6447 people. 4824 people were randomly selected and 1623 people were selected non-randomly. The mean age of participants was 78.93 78 4.85 13 13.85 - 66.10 years. Demographic characteristics of the participants: (64% - 91.41) male, (90.59% - 36) female, (89.7% - 9.2) married, (73% - 1.76) illiterate and ( 82.8% - 26) People also had at least one underlying disease. There was a significant relationship between education level, income, gender, marriage, current health status and age with quality of life (P <0.05). However, the three articles did not identify each of the variables of gender, marital status, and age as a related factor. The total score was quality of life for the elderly (22.80 - 1.49 86 86.86 - 21.41). Mean score of the dimensions of quality of life in the dimension of social function (18/22 - 32/18 ± 2 / 78- 40/18), physical function (59.07 - 23.52 23 23 / 68-69 / 17), mental health ( 42/94 - 8/9 67 9/67 - 47/21), general health (71/60 - 97/17 ± 7/61 - 92/16), vitality and vitality (18.62 ± 33 / 62-44 / 41), was physical pain (27.1 - 83.9 9 9.86 - 43.6).
Conclusion: The findings showed that quality of life in old age is a complex, objective and subjective concept. The quality of life of the Iranian elderly was estimated to be moderate in all dimensions except vitality and vitality. The social and psychological dimension of Iranian elderly is better than their physical function. This may be due to the physical pain reported by the participants. Since the quality of life in this period is easily threatened due to old age, it is important to consider the underlying factors affecting the quality of life of the elderly. Therefore, it is recommended to plan to improve the quality of life in all dimensions, especially the physical dimension and physical pain in the elderly population of Iran.