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Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore
BACKGROUND: Litter is known about the well-being of nursing home (NH) residents in Singapore. This study aimed to identify predictors of self-reported quality of life (QOL) of NH residents in Singapore. METHODS: In face-to-face interviews, trained medical students assessed each consenting resident r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964280/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27464566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-016-0503-x |
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author | Wang, Pei Yap, Philip Koh, Gerald Chong, Jia An Davies, Lucy Jennifer Dalakoti, Mayank Fong, Ngan Phoon Tiong, Wei Wei Luo, Nan |
author_facet | Wang, Pei Yap, Philip Koh, Gerald Chong, Jia An Davies, Lucy Jennifer Dalakoti, Mayank Fong, Ngan Phoon Tiong, Wei Wei Luo, Nan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Litter is known about the well-being of nursing home (NH) residents in Singapore. This study aimed to identify predictors of self-reported quality of life (QOL) of NH residents in Singapore. METHODS: In face-to-face interviews, trained medical students assessed each consenting resident recruited from 6 local NHs using a modified Minnesota QOL questionnaire, and rating scales and questions assessing independence, cognitive function, depression, and communication. Predictors of residents’ QOL in five aspects (comfort, dignity, food enjoyment, autonomy, and security) were identified using the censored least absolute deviations (CLAD) models. RESULTS: A total of 375 residents completed the interviews. A higher score on comfort was negatively associated with major depression while a higher score on dignity was positively associated with no difficulty in communication with staff. Higher scores in food enjoyment were negatively associated with major depression and poorer cognitive function. Higher scores in autonomy were negatively associated with major depression, greater dependence, and difficulty in communication with staff. A higher score on security were negatively associated with major depression. CONCLUSION: It appears that depression and difficulty in communication with staff are the two main modifiable risk factors of poor quality of life of local NH residents. |
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spelling | pubmed-49642802016-07-29 Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore Wang, Pei Yap, Philip Koh, Gerald Chong, Jia An Davies, Lucy Jennifer Dalakoti, Mayank Fong, Ngan Phoon Tiong, Wei Wei Luo, Nan Health Qual Life Outcomes Research BACKGROUND: Litter is known about the well-being of nursing home (NH) residents in Singapore. This study aimed to identify predictors of self-reported quality of life (QOL) of NH residents in Singapore. METHODS: In face-to-face interviews, trained medical students assessed each consenting resident recruited from 6 local NHs using a modified Minnesota QOL questionnaire, and rating scales and questions assessing independence, cognitive function, depression, and communication. Predictors of residents’ QOL in five aspects (comfort, dignity, food enjoyment, autonomy, and security) were identified using the censored least absolute deviations (CLAD) models. RESULTS: A total of 375 residents completed the interviews. A higher score on comfort was negatively associated with major depression while a higher score on dignity was positively associated with no difficulty in communication with staff. Higher scores in food enjoyment were negatively associated with major depression and poorer cognitive function. Higher scores in autonomy were negatively associated with major depression, greater dependence, and difficulty in communication with staff. A higher score on security were negatively associated with major depression. CONCLUSION: It appears that depression and difficulty in communication with staff are the two main modifiable risk factors of poor quality of life of local NH residents. BioMed Central 2016-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4964280/ /pubmed/27464566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-016-0503-x Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Wang, Pei Yap, Philip Koh, Gerald Chong, Jia An Davies, Lucy Jennifer Dalakoti, Mayank Fong, Ngan Phoon Tiong, Wei Wei Luo, Nan Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore |
title | Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore |
title_full | Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore |
title_fullStr | Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore |
title_short | Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore |
title_sort | quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in singapore |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964280/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27464566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-016-0503-x |
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