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Evaluation on the Nutrition Quotient Scores of Elderly People Living Alone in Korea

As the Korean society is aging rapidly, the issues on physical, social, economic, and mental disabilities of single-person households aged 65 years or older has also increased. This study aimed to investigate the nutrition-related dietary conditions of elderly people living alone and determine their...

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Autores principales: Gang, Gyoungok, Lee, Min June, Choi, Eun-hui, Lee, Hye-Lim, Lee, Hyun-Young, Chang, Hye-Ja, Choi, Jung-Hwa, Yi, Na-Young, Lee, Kyung-Eun, Chung, Min-Jae, Kwak, Tong-Kyung
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10489884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37686783
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15173750
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author Gang, Gyoungok
Lee, Min June
Choi, Eun-hui
Lee, Hye-Lim
Lee, Hyun-Young
Chang, Hye-Ja
Choi, Jung-Hwa
Yi, Na-Young
Lee, Kyung-Eun
Chung, Min-Jae
Kwak, Tong-Kyung
author_facet Gang, Gyoungok
Lee, Min June
Choi, Eun-hui
Lee, Hye-Lim
Lee, Hyun-Young
Chang, Hye-Ja
Choi, Jung-Hwa
Yi, Na-Young
Lee, Kyung-Eun
Chung, Min-Jae
Kwak, Tong-Kyung
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description As the Korean society is aging rapidly, the issues on physical, social, economic, and mental disabilities of single-person households aged 65 years or older has also increased. This study aimed to investigate the nutrition-related dietary conditions of elderly people living alone and determine their dietary behavior by calculating the nutrition quotient for elderly (NQ-E). One hundred and three elderly people living alone who were basic living recipients were recruited from six senior welfare centers in Seoul, and the data were collected using a questionnaire from 19 July 2016 to 17 August 2016, with a 1:1 in-depth interview using the modified version of the NQ-E questionnaire. The data were analyzed using SPSS 27.0 for Mac (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA); a p value of <0.05 was considered significant. The nutrition-related dietary conditions of the elderly living alone were limited, and many of them received support from the government, which helped improve their diet. The nutrition quotient score of the elderly living alone was 50.14, which was lower than the NQ-E mean score (57.6) of the Korean elderly and the NQ-E (62 points), which is the top 25% of the national survey subjects according to the criteria value presented by the Korean Nutrition Society. Elderly people living alone often have poor dietary habits and nutritional status. The NQ-E presented in this study can be used to evaluate the dietary conditions of the elderly and is expected to be used as an indicator for developing community programs for health promotion and evaluating their effectiveness.
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spelling pubmed-104898842023-09-09 Evaluation on the Nutrition Quotient Scores of Elderly People Living Alone in Korea Gang, Gyoungok Lee, Min June Choi, Eun-hui Lee, Hye-Lim Lee, Hyun-Young Chang, Hye-Ja Choi, Jung-Hwa Yi, Na-Young Lee, Kyung-Eun Chung, Min-Jae Kwak, Tong-Kyung Nutrients Article As the Korean society is aging rapidly, the issues on physical, social, economic, and mental disabilities of single-person households aged 65 years or older has also increased. This study aimed to investigate the nutrition-related dietary conditions of elderly people living alone and determine their dietary behavior by calculating the nutrition quotient for elderly (NQ-E). One hundred and three elderly people living alone who were basic living recipients were recruited from six senior welfare centers in Seoul, and the data were collected using a questionnaire from 19 July 2016 to 17 August 2016, with a 1:1 in-depth interview using the modified version of the NQ-E questionnaire. The data were analyzed using SPSS 27.0 for Mac (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA); a p value of <0.05 was considered significant. The nutrition-related dietary conditions of the elderly living alone were limited, and many of them received support from the government, which helped improve their diet. The nutrition quotient score of the elderly living alone was 50.14, which was lower than the NQ-E mean score (57.6) of the Korean elderly and the NQ-E (62 points), which is the top 25% of the national survey subjects according to the criteria value presented by the Korean Nutrition Society. Elderly people living alone often have poor dietary habits and nutritional status. The NQ-E presented in this study can be used to evaluate the dietary conditions of the elderly and is expected to be used as an indicator for developing community programs for health promotion and evaluating their effectiveness. MDPI 2023-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10489884/ /pubmed/37686783 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15173750 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lee, Kyung-Eun
Chung, Min-Jae
Kwak, Tong-Kyung
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15173750
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