PURPOSE
This study utilized secondary data and investigated the factors associated with life satisfaction by living arrangements among community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older in Korea.
METHODS
A total of 2,134 participants were selected from the 2014 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA). Univariable and multivariable logistic regression were used for data analysis.
RESULTS
The significant factors associated with life satisfaction in older adults living with others were education level (odds ratio [OR] 1.73, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.41~2.11), place of residence in medium-size city (OR 1.57, 95% CI 1.25~1.97), place of residence in rural town(OR 1.52, 95% CI 1.19~1.95), depression (OR 2.99, 95% CI 2.43~3.68), frequency of contact with neighbors (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.10~1.76), and social participation (OR 1.48, 95% CI 1.14~1.93). In contrast, factors associated with life satisfaction among older adults living alone were education level (OR 1.93, 95% CI 1.15~3.24) and depression (OR 2.49, 95% CI 1.48~4.19).
CONCLUSION
These findings indicated that nursing interventions for improving life satisfaction among older adults should take into account their specific living arrangements.

Citations

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PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components and to examine the related factors in urban and rural community, South Korea.
METHODS
The data from the 5th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES-V) conducted in 2010 were utilized in this study. The subjects were 5,760 adults 20 years or over. The data were consisted with health survey questionnaire and health examination. chi2-test and logistic regression was used for the analysis SAS 9.3 applying sampling weights.
RESULTS
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome based on the latest definition proposed the joint scientific meeting was 23.4% and 29.0% respectively in urban and rural community. Rural community showed higher prevalence of abdominal obesity (29.9% vs 38.5%), elevated blood pressure (31.3% vs 38.5%), elevated blood glucose (24.3% vs 28.4%) than urban community. The related factors were age, marital status, high risk drinking, obesity in urban community and age, marital status high risk drinking, severe physical activity, obesity in rural community.
CONCLUSION
This study showed there was difference in prevalence and the related factors of metabolic syndrome and these findings have important implications to prevent and manage metabolic syndrome in public health field.

Citations

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  Miyong Yon
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  Bohyun Park, Juhyeon Yang, Youngsoo Kim, Gianpiero Greco
  Health & Social Care in the Community.2023; 2023: 1.     CrossRef
• Frequency of steamed food consumption and risk of metabolic syndrome in Korean females: data from Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study
  Young-Ran Heo, Jeong-Hwa Choi
  Journal of Nutrition and Health.2022; 55(2): 309.     CrossRef
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  Ho-Jung Kim, Iyn-Hyang Lee
  Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy.2018; 28(4): 308.     CrossRef
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  Woo Jin Kim, Sang Hoon Kim, Shin Young Park
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  SoYoun Bang, IlGu Cho
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• The Effects of Metabolic Syndrome on Quality of Life
  So Youn Bang
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