The Influence Of Health Guidance To Community Empty Nest Elderly Quality Of Life And Mental Health

Objective:The aged tendency of population is a main problem currently in our country. Empty nest elderly as the special groups in the elderly population, and has a tendency to increase year by year. The quality of life and the mental health problems of empty-nest elderly is not only their own problems, but also our whole society should consider and try to solve the problem. In this study to the community and the behavioral health and life of empty nest elderly life is closely related to the ability to exercise, mental health and the safety of home environment with specific health guidance, to analyze the health guidance for community empty nest elderly quality of life and mental health effects.Methods:Choose the city two geographically diverse community of empty nesters in Hangzhou, extract a community as the intervention group, another community as the control group, and to all involved in the research of empty nesters establish health files. Regular community guidance was given to the control group, the intervention group in giving routine community guidance and accept the physiology, psychology, health behavior and social support and for the health guidance, with the method of questionnaire survey on two groups of elderly quality of life and mental health status were compared. The SPSS 19.0 statistical software analysis, measurement data using t test, counting ranked data by Wilcoxon rank sum test, before and after the intervention of health behavior compared with matching chi-square test, the rest were compared by chi-square test.Results:This study was included in the study of 440 people, among them male 214,female 226. The age range of the control group were 60-88 years old, the average age was 72.13±6.33 years old. The age range of the intervention group was 61-87 years old, the average age was 71.32±5.58 years old. Before the intervention, the basic condition of the two groups, the related health behavior (except "cooking"), the environment that occupy the home security (in addition to "the bathroom safety"), mental health (in addition to "make a decision I think is easy"), there were no statistically significant difference (P<0.05). After six months of health behavior guidance, the intervention group in their own health, quality of life, mental health and mental health than before the implementation of intervention measures improved obviously, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). And compared with the control group, the effective health guidance to improve the effect of empty nest old man’s physical and mental health, was statistical significance (P<0.05).Conclusion:Under the empty-nest status of empty nest old man for a long time, taking reasonable health guidance, help to improve the quality of life of empty nest elderly and mental health, for the development of community empty nest elderly quality of life and provide basis for mental health interventions, as well as to provide basis for health management of empty nest old man.