| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 臨床暨社區護理研究所 === 101 === According to several research studies, physical activity can improve the health of elderly who suffer from chronic diseases. Some elderly exercise regularly to prolong aging process because they are knowledgeable about aging and they perceived aging as a threat due to some changes. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of aging knowledge between aging threats and physical activity among community-dwelling elders with chronic disease. A convenient sample of two hundred elderly with chronic diseases who went to the outpatient department in Da-An district were recruited to participated in this cross-sectional study. A structured questionnaire including demographic information, the Chinese version of the facts on aging quiz scale (FAQ), the Aging Threat Questionnaire, the Modified Baceke Questionnaire (MBQ) and the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) were used for data collection. Statistic analysis included t test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, simple regression, and stepwise regression .
The study found the knowledge of aging of the elderly was moderate. Under the knowledge of aging, the physiological knowledge of aging has the highest score, followed by the psychological knowledge of aging, and the social knowledge of aging was the least. The aging threat of the elderly was at lower degree. Under the aging threat, physiological threat of aging was the highest, followed by the psychological threat of aging, and the social threat of aging was the least. Total physical activity score was 8.79 (SD: 5.82). Under the category of physical activity, household scored 1.67 (SD: .60), sports and leisure activities scored 7.11 (SD: 5.72). higher activity compared with the literature. Majority elderly do about two kinds of sports and activities and going for a walk is the common one. There was a significant difference between religion and knowledge of aging and perceived health status and aging threat. Men did more physical activity and sport activity more than women, however, women did more household than men. Married people , People with associate degree , People with better perceived health status and Buddhists did more physical activity , There is no correlation between knowledge of aging and aging threats among community elderly with chronic diseases. In addition, there was no correlation between aging threats and physical activity. However, there was a positive correlation among knowledge of aging, sport activity and household. There was a positive correlation among physical knowledge of aging, physical activity, and sport activity. Psychological knowledge of aging positively correlates with physical activity. Also, social knowledge of aging positively correlates with household. Furthermore, Buddhism, associate degree, age, male, and knowledge of aging could explain a total of 20.3% of the variance of physical activity according to stepwise regression.
Based on the results, our suggestions are that healthcare providers should work on strengthening elder people's knowledge of aging in order to increase physical activity, especially physiological knowledge of aging can be used to enhance the sports activity and the social knowledge of aging can improve household activity.
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