Survey on the Impact of Chronic
Diseases on Quality of Life And the
Loneliness Status Among Empty-Nest
Aged People
ZHANG JIANPING
Dengyang
Zhoujia
Liyao Zhaojinyie
1 Faculty of Public Health, Kunming Medicine University, China
2 Institute for Adult Education, Kunming Medicine University, China
3 The Second Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medicine University, China


Background
• Along with rapid economic development, the aging
process in China is gradually accelerating. As a more
vulnerable group, empty-nest elderly are facing more
urgent health problems. This study explores the chronic
illness situation and health-related quality of life
(HRQOL) of empty-nest elderly in Yunnan province of
China
• And aims to arouse more social concern for their
HRQOL. to examine the prevalence of chronic disease
and quality of life, its related factors among people aged
60 years and over in Yunnan province


Methods
• Cross-sectional study
• A randomly selected sample of 402 people aged 60
years and over of empty-nest old men living in urban

over
The permanent reside old people
of 1 year or over in community
limiting survey deadline
They freely participant under
Informed consent
Good cognitive ability

Exclusion standard
• Disease severity people
• Bad cognitive ability
• Refused to compliance


Sampling and sample estimated
• Using clustering sampling ： we select 8 communities
as study sitting.
•

Chronic Diseases morbidity rate is 53.4% of old people in
urban of China.

total rate =53.4%;
• I error a=0.05 ： S=5% ：
• n=
2

=
•


6. other


Result(2) Impact factor analysis of chronic disease suffer
from an illness status
Risk factor

Protect factor

Whether or not
ill

Self-assessment
status and age

health occupation before retire
、 support money and self-care
ability

Hypertension

Self-assessment health
status and age

self-care ability

Blood vessel of
brain diseases

Self-assessment health

Result(2)To Compare the loneliness scale in the difference
demographic
gender
age

Minority
Marital

characteristic

N

Mean

S.D

F

p

male

176

36.48

12.25

3.922


80-89

59

36.81

11.30

over

67

37.85

11.35

han

329

35.67

11.21

3.038

0.082

minority


36.60

12.48

spouse

110

35.87

12.91


Result(2)
Education status

occupation before
retire

illiteracy

70

36.00

11.93

Primary

129

University or over

23

39.00

13.23

worker

188

34.20

10.62

peasant

55

36.16

12.94

cadre

63

33.38



Result(2)To Compare the loneliness scale in the
difference economic security
N

Mean

S.D

t

P

yes

265

35.03

11.26

0.166

0.684

no

137

35.53


1.821

0.178

no

264

35.76

12.22

yes

241

33.24

11.23

no

161

38.14

11.15

characteristic


Mean

S.D

F/t

P

good

88

32.60

10.16

3.938

0.020

generalizati
on

200

35.25

10.88


367

42.57

11.22

16.530

0.000

no

35

34.49

11.30


Result(2) Impact factor analysis of loneliness status
variable

β

S.E

constant

18.699



0.000

2.014

-0.172

-3.501

0.001

2.243

0.804

0.138

2.789

0.006

2.285

1.103

0.099

2.071

0.039

-4.151

﹤0.000

RF

61.60±46.72

79.38±36.99

-3.870

﹤0.000

BF

69.60±20.90

78.71±14.06

-4.593

﹤0.000

VT

68.87±18.63

76.57±15.47


0.166

0.868


Result(3) to compare QOL among difference
chronic disease
Section

GH

PF

RP

BP

…

Hypertension

46.48±20.67

76.91±19.81

61.91±45.57

70.44±20.39

…

40.94±21.20

76.80±20.59

55.47±48.48

70.59±23.60

…

COPD

33.67±16.53

58.33±24.90

26.67±41.69

57.20±25.42

…

other

44.46±19.02

76.29±17.19

60.88±46.36


QOL scale

Loneliness total scale &
QOL scale ﹤ R ﹤

p-value

GH

50.99±21.56

-0.215

﹤0.000

PF

79.17±20.53

-0.375

﹤0.000

RP

67.66±44.41

-0.177

﹤0.000


﹤0.000

MH

65.44±13.74

-0.312

﹤0.000


Result(3) Difference groups QOL Test
Emptynesters

Un-emptynesters

T-value

P-value

GH

50.99±21.56

54.48±11.76

3.245

0.001


VT

71.49±17.97

79.37±15.92

8.787

﹤ 0.000

SF

87.56±23.16

93.65±24.53

5.271

﹤ 0.000

RE

73.05±41.46

80.97±35.71

3.830

﹤ 0.000