The Life’s Quality on Hip Fracture Patients Who Had Arthoplasty Hip Replacement

Abstract

Background: Hip fractures is a serious problem for public’s health, especially in working age and old ages. It causes inappropriate life’s quality for each ages.

Objectives: To study the level of life’s quality in each dimension of public who had hip fractures and had arthoplasty hip replacement from Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat hospital.

Materials and Methods : A cross-sectional descriptive research. To study the patients age not over 80 years old who had hip replacement surgery from Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital since 2558-2560. 83 samples were selected and used short-term life’s quality questionnaire 36 items. Sent the evaluation form by mail. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and analytical statistics ANOVA.

Results : There were 83 participants averaged 66.2 ±12.41 years old. 89.16 percent had age more than 50 years. 79.5 percent was female. 54.2 percent got injured from falling. 71.1 percent had duration of hip replacement surgery more than 1 year. 42.2 percent had number lenge  of stay in hospital appointment not exceeding 13 days. 60.2 percent had past illness of disease before had surgery. 77.1 percent was cared by their children/cousins. 47 percent had to use walking aid before had surgery. And 6 percent of patients had hip arthroplasty were able to walk by his/her self before leave hospital. The result of opinions on life’s quality who had hip replacement surgery found 51.53 percent was the overall of quality life of ones who got hip replacement surgery. 42.35 percent was classified as quality of life for physical health. 56.42 percent was quality of life for mental health. 63.42 percent has the highest average life quality was social functioning (SF) dimension. 62.83 percent has the second dimension was vitality (VT) dimension. 29.21 percent has the lowest quality of life in the dimension of role limitation due to physical problems (RP).

 Conclusions : The quality of life on health side of patients who had hip replacement surgery can be used to plan nursing quality development for each dimension from beginning until leaving the hospital. To provide patients with quality of life appropriate for the age after surgery for hip replacement.