Okamoto K
Department of Public Health, Aichi Prefectural College of Nursing and Health.
Nihon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. 2000 Feb;37(2):149-54. doi: 10.3143/geriatrics.37.149.
The aim of this study is to explore the factors associated with feelings of well-being in 683 community-dwelling elderly residents, aged 65 years and over using a self-administered questionnaire. The feeling of well-being was rated using a single question item constructed by The Japanese Association for Cerebro-cardiovascular Disease control (JACD), and then subjects were divided into two groups according to answer categories: happiness and unhappiness. There was no statistically significant difference in the proportion of subjects with happiness between males and females, or among age groups. Even when interaction among multiple factors were adjusted by logistic regression analysis, a high frequency of conversation with family was statistically significantly related to happiness, and the odds ratio of it was highest among all other factors. The odds ratio of high frequency of conversation with family was higher among the elderly aged 75 and over than among those aged 65-74. These results suggest that the construction of communication between the elderly and their family through conversation could contribute to feelings of well-being in the elderly.
本研究旨在通过一份自填式问卷，探究683名年龄在65岁及以上的社区老年居民中与幸福感相关的因素。幸福感通过日本脑血管疾病控制协会（JACD）构建的单一问题项目进行评分，然后根据回答类别将受试者分为两组：幸福和不幸福。男性和女性之间或年龄组之间，感到幸福的受试者比例没有统计学上的显著差异。即使通过逻辑回归分析对多个因素之间的相互作用进行调整后，与家人频繁交谈在统计学上仍与幸福感显著相关，且其优势比在所有其他因素中最高。75岁及以上老年人与家人频繁交谈的优势比高于65 - 74岁的老年人。这些结果表明，通过交谈构建老年人与其家人之间的沟通可能有助于老年人的幸福感。
