Factors related to Activities of Daily Living among Older Adults in Community
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The objectives of this descriptive correlation research are to study the ability to perform activities of daily living among the older adults and to study the factors related to the activities of daily living among older adults in community dwellbeing. The sample consists of 146 older people in the health service area of a health promotion hospital in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand. The research instrument includes a personal data interview guide, perceived severity of a fall, fear of falling, management strategy fear of falling, and Barthel activities of daily living index. The confidence values for Cronbach’s alpha coefficients are .98, .97, .81, and .82, respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s production-moment correlation coefficient.
The results show that the older people can perform activities of daily living at the level of mild dependence (M = 13.53, SD = 3.23) and Barthel activities of the daily living index are negatively correlated to the management strategy fear of falling, perceived severity of the fall, and fall experience low levels are statistically significant at the .01 level (r = -.23, -.22, -.21, respectively). Fear of falling was negatively correlated at a low level and is statistically significant at .05 (r = -.18).
Research results show that should focus on falling. Perceived severity of fall, fear of falling and management strategy fear of falling to promote confidence in the activities of daily living among the older people in the community.
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