Quality of Life and its Influencing Factors of 150 Aged Patients with Chronic Diseases / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand current situation of live quality of old patients and to explore its influencing factors.Methods Age of all subjects more than 60 years who was aged in-patients with a chronic disease in geriatric ward,department of XiangYa Hospital. General physical examination were executed. Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90) and Quality of Life (QOL) scales were measured.Results ⑴The problems of QOL and mentality were occurred in 78%,77 33% respectively of the patients. ⑵Multiple linear regression showed that financial condition, mentality, age and physical disease were major factors that affected the patients' quality of life . The linear equation was YQOL=36 967-0 734 X age+2 012 X financial-0 0352 X mentality-0 712 X diseases(P