Health and Nutrition Status of Grandparents on Grandparents-Grandchildren Family in Rural Area / 農村醫學 地域保健

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVES: This study was to identify and test the health and nutritional status of grandparents in grandparents-grandchildren family in rural area. METHODS: The subjects of this study were 70 grandparents of grandparents - grandchildren family in Muan-Gun. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, regression analysis. RESULTS: The average age of grandparents was 70.1+/-6.6 years old, unhealthy of the subjective health status was 55.7%, MNA score was 21.0+/-3.5 points and 62.2% of the grandparents were shown to have malnutritonal status. The ADL, IADL, depression and fall index of health status were significantly related to the relationship with gender(p<.01), age(p<.05), economic(p<.01) and educational level(p<.01), and partnership(p<.01). MNA score was significantly related to the relationship with acute disease(p<.05), ADL(p<.001), IADL(p<.01), cognitive function(p<.01) and gender(p<.01). And the health status variables and general characteristics were positively correlated while the relationships were positive between health status variables and MNA score. CONCLUSIONS: With the above findings, grandparents of grandparents-grandchildren family have the problems of health and nutritional status. Then health and nutritional intervention program for grandparents-grandchildren family is needed to serve.