Correlation research between health empowerment and self-concealment of community elderly patients with chronic disease / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To convey health empowerment and self-concealment of community elderly patients with chronic disease and the correlation between them. Methods Convenient sampling was used, elderly patients with chronic disease health empowerment questionnaire, self- concealment questionnaire, general demographic information questionnaire were used to survey 490 community elderly patients with chronic disease. Results The elderly patients′ health empowerment average score was 3.02±0.86, self-concealment average score was 3.38±0.69, health empowerment and self-concealment had significant negative correlation (r=-0.389, P＜0.01). Conclusions The community elderly patients with chronic disease was at a moderate lower level, self-concealment was at a moderate higher level, relative people should decrease the degree of self-concealment of community elderly patients with chronic disease, increase the degree of health empowerment of community elderly patients with chronic disease, so as to promote the physical and psychological health of community elderly patients with chronic disease.