Relationship of Physical, Emotional Health Variables and Functional Health Status of the Elderly in Asaba, Delta State

Lokoyi Ose Lovet Osita

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Relationship of Physical, Emotional Health Variables and Functional Health Status of the Elderly in Asaba, Delta State

Lokoyi Ose Lovet Osita

Published in European Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 3, Issue 2)

Received: 24 December 2014 Accepted: 29 January 2015 Published: 16 February 2015

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Functional health status is the level of activities performed by an individual to realize needs of daily living in many aspects of life including physical, psychological, social, spiritual and intellectual roles. Level of performance is expected to correspond to normal expectation in the individual's nature, structure and conditions. Researching into the functional health status of the senior citizens will aid in designing a worthwhile health education programme for them. The few health-related studies carried out on the senior citizens in Asaba have not addressed their functional health status. Therefore, this study examined physical functioning, role limitations due to physical health, role limitations due to emotional problems, energy/fatigue, emotional well-being, social functioning, pain and general health as determinants of functional health status of the senior citizens in Asaba, Delta State. The study used descriptive survey research design. The sample aged 64.93 ± 11.57years in average were two hundred and fourteen (214) drawn through multistage sampling techniques from five local government areas in Asaba, Delta State. Functional Health Status was assessed using the Medical Outcomes Trust Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Status Questionnaire that has internal consistency reliability results based on Alpha levels to range from 0.42 to 0.91. Eight hypotheses were tested and data were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics of frequency count, percentage, mean and standard deviation as well as non-parametric statistics of chi-square (X2) at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that physical functioning (X2=423.87, p<0.05), role limitations due to emotional problems (X2=8.46, p<0.05), energy/fatigue (X2=148.12, p<0.05), emotional well-being (X2=616.36, p<0.05), social functioning (X2=25.30, p<0.05), pain (X2=26.30, p<0.05) and general health (X2=520.78, p<0.05) were significant determinants while role limitations due to physical health was not a significant determinant of functional health status of the senior citizens in Asaba, Delta State. It was concluded that the content of health education programme for the senior citizens should strongly take the factors examined into consideration.

Published in	European Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 3, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ejpm.20150302.12
Page(s)	22-25
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Physical functioning, Role limitations, Social functioning, Pain, General health

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