คุณภาพชีวิต ภาวะสุขภาพจิตและความสามารถในการช่วยเหลือตนเองของผู้สูงอายุ: กรณีศึกษาเขตเมือง อุบลราชธานี

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Abstract
Today, Thai elderly people continuously increase. However, a long life of the elderly people does not indicate for better quality of life. Understanding
quality of life, mental health status, and activities of daily living may be basic information to promote the elderly people’s quality of life. The purposes of the
cross-sectional study were quality of life, mental health status, and activities of daily living among Thai elderly people at Meung District, Ubon Ratchathani
Province. Samples were 412 Thai elderly people who were in 26 communities at Meung District, Ubon Ratchathani Province, and aged 60 years old and over
through multi-stage random sampling. Instruments included The 26-item version of world Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL - BREF), MentalHealth
Indicators of the Department of Mental Health Ministry of Public Health and Activities of Daily Living (ADL) of Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health.
Cronbach’s alpha for internal reliability included 0.81, 0.87, and 0.85 respectively. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. The study showed that, overall, 59.20 percentages of samples had moderate level of score of quality of life. Considering each dimension of the quality of life, percentages of the samples had highest levels including psychological dimension (40.50 %), and environmental dimension (40.20 %). For mental health status, 61percentages of samples had normal standard level, whereas 5.80 percentages of samples had lower standard level. Turning to ADL, 97.90 percentages ofsamples were well-being elders. There were 1.05 percentages of them who were home bound elders and bed bound elders. The findings suggest that chronic illness and social relationship of Thai elderly people should be concerned for guideline to help their better quality of life in the future.