| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 運動與休閒教育研究所 === 99 === The purposes of this study were: 1. to identify the symptoms, health-related quality of life, and functional fitness in patients with OA knee; 2. To examine the differences of these three variable in OA knee patients who have different demographic background; and 3. to explore the relationships of WOMAC, functional fitness, and SF-36. Methods: 225 patients with OA knee were assessed throughout a 1-month period, providing functional fitness measures and self-response questionnaires including WOMAC, SF-36 and self-report containing sections on demographic characteristics. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, student t test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product Moment correlation coefficient. The conclusions were as follows: 1. For the descriptive data, the OA knee patients in this study tend to be older, female, either overweight or obese, and with lower level of educational background. 2. Male patients tend to have better health-related quality of life than their female counterparts; while female patients tend to have better upper body flexibility than males in the functional fitness test. Patients who are older tend to have worse performance in lower body muscular endurance, cardiopulmonary endurance, agility and balance than their younger counterparts. Patients who have higher level of education tend to have better lower body strength, cardiovascular function, and have better agility, and balance. 3. There are negative relationship between WOMAC, health-related quality of life and functional fitness in OA knee patients, indicating that the patients who have higher self-perception of their health-related quality of life, better performance in lower body strength, cardiovascular function, and agility, tend to have lower knee joint symptoms. Key words: Functional Fitness, SF-36, Knee Osteoarthritis, WOMAC
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