Relationship Between Health Behavior and Quality of Life of the Elderly
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.044How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Elderly, physical activity, Sundanese culture
- Abstract
The increasing number of elderly will require serious treatment for the elderly naturally decline, physical, biological, and mental. People, especially the elderly in PasirMulya have bad habits in terms of preparing food, eating food, such as frequently eating fast food. To analyze the relationship between health behavior and quality of life of the elderly. Quantitative approach to the cross-sectional design. Population of 92 elderly people with samples taken using total sampling technique. Statistically using Chi Square test and Multiple Logistic Regression. There were elderly people who have a poor quality of life in health centers PasirMulya, Bogor as much as 62%, 63% of young elderly age, female gender 68.5%, 69.6% lower education, employment (not working) 54.3% consumption of foods that are not varied 56.5%, 58.7% smoking habits, physical activity / exercise irregular 66.3%, 55.4% negarif attitude, 60.9% less knowledge, and behaviors related to Sundanese culture less appreciate by 59.8%. Variables significantly associated with quality of life of the elderly that is age, gender, education, employment, food consumption, smoking habits, physical activity / exercise, attitudes, knowledge and behavior related Sundanese culture. (P <0.05). Education is the dominant variables relating to the quality of life of elderly (OR = 83.213) means the elderly are highly educated have a chance 83 times to live with a good quality compared to the elderly who have low education.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Fitria Lestari AU - Lela Zakiah PY - 2020 DA - 2020/07/24 TI - Relationship Between Health Behavior and Quality of Life of the Elderly BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Science, Health, Economics, Education and Technology (ICoSHEET 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 175 EP - 178 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.044 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.044 ID - Lestari2020 ER -