TY - JOUR AU - สุวิทวัส, จินตนา AU - แก้วจันทา, เนตรชนก PY - 2012/03/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Quality of life in the elderly with diabetes mellitus JF - Journal of Nursing Science and Health JA - JNSH VL - 32 IS - 3 SE - Research Article DO - UR - https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nah/article/view/859 SP - 29-38 AB - The purpose of this study was to assessthe quality of life of the elderly attending in diabeticclinic, PCU Nonmuange and to determine therelationships between demographic, socio-economic,health factors and quality of life of these people.The subjects of this study were 76 elderly with diabetesmellitus, selected by simple random samplingtechnique. Research struments used for collectingdata were a interviews which were developed by theresearcher to gather data related to  demographic,socio-economic, health factors and quality of lifeof the elderly. Statistical methods used to analyzedata were the percentage, mean, standard deviationand Chi-square tests. The  results showed thatthe quality of life of the elderly was in the good level.There was significant relationship betweencomplication from diabetes mellitus and quality oflife of the elderly.(p-value=0.03). According tothis study, we recommend that nurse should advisethe elderly with diabetes mellitus about their diseasefor protect complication and good quality of life. ER -