| Objective:Since the Chinese population entered the aging and advanced aged model, the amount of the elderly population increased sharply, the elderly population is becoming to empty-nest. Empty nest elderly people’s lower quality of life can be due to the change of role in the family and society, and fewer social contacts, and the change of physical and mental health status. The quality of life of empty-nest elderly people has become a problem that can’t be ignored of society and government. Healthy Qigong is a kind of expression form of health life style; it has strong health effect and can improve the function levels of body and adjust the mental health. Currently there are few researches of Health Qigong on quality of life. Wuqinxi exercise is the earliest bionic exercises in China; it has high representative and research value. This study based on above background, it uses the SF-36 scale to measure and evaluate the influence of Wuqinxi exercise on the quality of life of urban empty-nest elder, in order to enrich the related research of Health Qigong Wuqinxi, and provide reference for improving the quality of life of urban empty-nest elder.Methods:This study selected 86 standard city empty nesters, and then groups them randomly:Health Qigong Wuqinxi experimental group and a control group without intervention. The experimental group exercises four times a week, every 70 minutes; the control group had no intervention, the whole experimental period is 20 weeks. Before the experiment and after the test, respectively hand out the SF-36 Scale to the experimental group and control group; grasp the quality of life of empty nesters through the Scale score situation.Results:(1) the city empty-nesters average scores of each dimension of SF-36 are in passing level; including RP, GH and RE three dimensions scores were below the cut level. (2) Male and female urban empty-nesters score in all dimensions of SF-36 have no significant difference (P> 0.05); (3) In scores of the SF-36 scale, alone empty-nesters have seven dimensions lower than the empty-nesters who have companion; and there are significant differences among them between the PF, RP, SF, MCS, and total score(P<0.05); (4) Before the experiment and after the test, the experimental group have had varying degrees of significant differences on the all dimensions of SF-36 scores(P<0.05); after the experiment, the experimental group and control group experiment had a significant difference in RP, SF and RE (P<0.05), a very significant difference in BP, GH and MCS (P<0.01), an extremely significant difference in PF, PCS and total scores (P<0.001); (5)After the experiment, male and female empty-nesters in the experimental group have no significant difference (P> 0.05) on the all dimensions of SF-36 scale scores.Conclusion:(1) The quality of life of urban empty-nesters is low, it is main of the physical health and the limited functionality of role caused by emotional problems; the assessment for the development trend of their own health was more pessimistic, the quality of life of urban empty-nesters have no significant gender differences, the quality of life of urban alone empty-nesters is lower than the city empty-nesters who have companion; (2) Health Qigong Wuqinxi can improve the urban empty-nesters physical health and psychological health effectively, thereby improving the quality of life of urban empty-nesters; but the effects of health Qigong Wuqinxi for the quality of life of urban empty-nesters have no significant gender differences. |
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