TITLE:
Study on Community Care Needs and Influencing Factors of the Urban Elderly in Shandong Province, China
AUTHORS:
Yuqing Mi, Wei Li, Yunfeng Tang, Xiang Wang, Sheng Luo
KEYWORDS:
The Elderly, Community Care, Needs, Influencing Factors
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Biosciences and Medicines,
Vol.10 No.10,
October
31,
2022
ABSTRACT: Objective: To understand community care needs of the urban elderly in Shandong Province. To analysis the influencing factors and community care needs of the urban elderly in Shandong Province. Methods: Shandong Province was divided into four levels according to the level of economic development, multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling method was used. Each city collected the old aged 60 years or older served by 5 community health service centers. A total of 3390 questionnaires were distributed, the recovery rate was 100%, it had 3363 effective questionnaires, and an effective rate was 99.20%. SPSS17.0 software was used for univariate and multivariate analysis. Results: Analysis results show that, the influencing factors of community care needs of health promotion dimension have medical time (t = 3.239, P = 0.001) and EQ-5D score (t = 9.104, P -6.239, P -17.276, P -3.762, P -8.341, P Conclusions: Community care needs of the urban elderly in Shandong Province are at a medium level and have many influencing factors, the scores of each dimension from high to low are health promotion, disease care and disease prevention. In community nursing work, we should meet the care needs of the elderly, we need to enhance elderly self-care and safety awareness and promote the physical and mental health of the elderly.