The Study On QOL (the Quality Of Life) Of The Old Empty-nest People And Their Community Nursing Needs In Communities Of Fuzhou City.

Objective:(1) To investigate the general conditions of the old empty-nest and non-empty-nest people and the differences between them .(2) To investigate the empty-nest and non-empty-nest old people's QOL and theirdemanding community nursing care and the affected factors.(3)To put forward some perfect measures for improving the old people's QOL.Methods:A total of 363 old people over 60 years old are selected from 4 communities in Fuzhou,Fujian. Their QOL and community nursing needs are assessed by using a self-designedinvestigation questionnaire besides the GQOLI-74. The statistics methods used includeschi-square test,ANOVA,step linear regression,correlation analysis, and so on.Results:1,General conditions: The mean age of the old people is 68.80±7.16. The old empty-nestpeople make up 29.8% of the total. There is no significant difference in the constitution ofage,marriage,sex rate,education degree,occupation and income between the empty-nest andnon-empty-nest old people. There are significant differences existing in the constitution of age,sex,occupation among the 4 groups-single and couple old empty-nest people, spouse andnon-spouse old non-empty people. But the difference in education and income are insignificant。2,Sociological materials:(1) 71.9% old people of all are suffering from a certain kind ofdisease. The three most disease they suffer from are hypertension ,arthritis andcardiac-vascular diseases. (2) 64.7% old people live together with their children. (3) The mostimportant problems up what they are facing focus on financial and healthy problem.3,Community nursing needs:(1)41.7% old people believe that community nursing arehelpful or extremely helpful to their life. 40.8% of them choose to receive services fromcommunity nursing stations. The main reason that the old people refuse to receive communitynursing is the problem of cost. (2) The average needs of community nursing are at a mediumlevel and mostly focus on healthy education. (3) The main factors affecting community nursingare knowledge about community nursing, disease numbers and age, etc. 4,QOL: There are significant differences in social function and total scores among the 4groups, but there is no significant difference in all domains and total scores between the empty-nestand non-empty-nest groups. The main factors are disease numbers, economic situation, educationdegree, marriage condition and age, etc. 5,The relationship between QOL and community nursing needs : All domains of QOL aremainly reverse associating with that of community nursing needs, except the material function ofQOL with the health promoting of community nursing needs. Conclusions: The differences in QOL and community nursing needs between the empty-nest andnone-empty-nest are almost insignificant. QOL is mainly reverse associating with communitynursing needs. We must take different measures to different old people.