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Factors Associated with Healthy Aging among Older Persons in Northeastern Thailand

The aim of this study was to describe factors associated with perceived health and healthy aging among older people in northeastern Thailand. Thailand’s aging population is growing and facing an increasing old-age dependency ratio. Northeastern Thailand, known as Isan, is a region in which the numbe...

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Autores principales: Manasatchakun, Pornpun, Chotiga, Pleumjit, Hochwälder, Jacek, Roxberg, Åsa, Sandborgh, Maria, Asp, Margareta
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5110604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27432370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10823-016-9296-y
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author Manasatchakun, Pornpun
Chotiga, Pleumjit
Hochwälder, Jacek
Roxberg, Åsa
Sandborgh, Maria
Asp, Margareta
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Chotiga, Pleumjit
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description The aim of this study was to describe factors associated with perceived health and healthy aging among older people in northeastern Thailand. Thailand’s aging population is growing and facing an increasing old-age dependency ratio. Northeastern Thailand, known as Isan, is a region in which the number of older residents is projected to grow rapidly. Older people in this region are likely to confront great threats to their health and well-being. These issues require appropriate attention and actions to promote healthy aging. However, healthy aging in this region has not been studied. A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 453 older people, aged 60 years or older. Participants completed the Healthy Aging Instrument (HAI) and provided relevant demographic characteristics. Mann-Whitney U tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests and multiple regression models were used to analyze the data. Through comparative analyses, significant differences in HAI scores were observed for the following factors: marital status, residential area, disability, income level, and perceived meaningfulness in life. In the multiple regression models, residential area, disability, and marital status explained 24.30 % of the variance in HAI scores. Health promotion strategies and future targeted intervention programs should consider the importance of these factors.
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spelling pubmed-51106042016-11-29 Factors Associated with Healthy Aging among Older Persons in Northeastern Thailand Manasatchakun, Pornpun Chotiga, Pleumjit Hochwälder, Jacek Roxberg, Åsa Sandborgh, Maria Asp, Margareta J Cross Cult Gerontol Original Article The aim of this study was to describe factors associated with perceived health and healthy aging among older people in northeastern Thailand. Thailand’s aging population is growing and facing an increasing old-age dependency ratio. Northeastern Thailand, known as Isan, is a region in which the number of older residents is projected to grow rapidly. Older people in this region are likely to confront great threats to their health and well-being. These issues require appropriate attention and actions to promote healthy aging. However, healthy aging in this region has not been studied. A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 453 older people, aged 60 years or older. Participants completed the Healthy Aging Instrument (HAI) and provided relevant demographic characteristics. Mann-Whitney U tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests and multiple regression models were used to analyze the data. Through comparative analyses, significant differences in HAI scores were observed for the following factors: marital status, residential area, disability, income level, and perceived meaningfulness in life. In the multiple regression models, residential area, disability, and marital status explained 24.30 % of the variance in HAI scores. Health promotion strategies and future targeted intervention programs should consider the importance of these factors. Springer US 2016-07-18 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5110604/ /pubmed/27432370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10823-016-9296-y Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This 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.
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title_sort factors associated with healthy aging among older persons in northeastern thailand
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