TITLE:
The Relationship among Chronic Disease, Feeling-for-Their-Age, Sleep Quality, Health-Related Quality of Life and Activities of Daily Living of Community-Dwelling Persons over 55 Years of Age
AUTHORS:
Hiroko Sugimoto, Tetsuya Tanioka, Yuko Yasuhara, Arisa Kurokawa, Miki Sato, Kazuhiro Ozawa, Rozzano Locsin, Soichi Honda
KEYWORDS:
Elderly, Health-Related Quality of Life, Sleep Quality, Activities of Daily Living
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.8 No.1,
November
29,
2017
ABSTRACT: Japan’s aging population rate is increasing and healthy life expectancy has decreases by 10 years shorter than average life expectancy. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship among chronic disease, sleep quality, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and activities of daily living in people over 55 years old who live in the community. Subjects were 161 persons aged 57 to 90 years who were treated with chronic disease in the outpatient department of the A hospital. Exclusion criteria included patients with dementia, cancer and severe heart disease. The survey evaluation questionnaires included the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), HRQOL by Short-Form 8 Health Survey (SF-8), and activities of daily living. Variables associated with quality of sleep, HRQOL in univariate analysis with p