Quality of Life in Health Status Dimension and Factors Predicting Fall Prevention Behavior in Elderly People with Chronic Disease

Abstract

This descriptive research aims to study quality of life in the health dimension, Fall prevention behavior and factors predicting fall prevention behavior among 89 elderly people in Na Siao Subdistrict, Chaiyaphum Province, obtained from convenience sampling. The research tool is a questionnaire with sections 1) general information 2) quality of life in the health dimension. 3) Risk of falls 4) Behavior to prevent falls Questionnaire parts 2-4 found a content validity index of 0.83 with reliability coefficients of 0.76, 0.86, and 0.82, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The results of the research found that the quality of life in the health dimension of the elderly found that the average quality of life in the overall health dimension was at a good level. Falls prevention behavior among the elderly was found to be overall at a moderate level. (Mean=2.94,S.D.=0.30) and factors that can predict fall prevention behavior include quality of life in the social and economic dimensions of health and risk of falls. Together they predicted 39.5% of fall prevention behaviors in the elderly, with statistical significance at the 0.01 level.