Community arthritis in 207 patients aged body tertiary prevention of disability and its investigation.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Community arthritis in 207 patients aged body tertiary prevention of disability and its investigation Of: Zhang Guo Sizhi CONSERVATORY river [Abstract] Objective for the Elderly arthritis and physical disability, provide the basis for community intervention. Methods healthy self scale (SRHMS), and depression scale (DSI), of the 637gt; = 65 years old to do home questionnaire, self-reported arthritis and 207 patients and 89 elderly controls for comparison. Results The total prevalence rate of elderly arthritis 32.5%, 38.6% femalegt; male and 26.3%, 85-year-old female to male prevalence rate was 92.5 ~ 55.6 % and 21.6%, a significant gender difference (P lt;0.001); female patient group, education primary school, manual labor, self-support fee 800 ? / m, no medical insurance, annual out-patientgt; = 4 times and drugs thousand dollars or more, is the control of the 2.1,1.99,2.46,2.91,1.88,2.23 and 2.26 times; their pain, ADL and IADL limitation was higher than the control (P lt;0.05), life satisfaction and sense of fulfillment was lower than 16 % and 47% (P lt;0.01). multiple regression analysis showed that widows living alone, negative emotion, and sick patients with arthritis disability were closely related. Conclusion broad social support self-management of arthritis disability three prevention in the key. [Keywords:] Aged; arthritis; disability; Tertiary prevention Involving chronic arthritis as a typical 60% to 90% of the elderly (1) .2001 to 2006, five years old arthritis in Australia increased by 10% (2). U.S. longitudinal study in healthy elderly, disabled body in disease The elderly population showed high prevalence, is the medical cost of the main motivation (3). Arthritis and the elderly chronic pain and reduced quality of life were independent predictors of (2). Only the United States in 1995 reached 21.49 billion Arthritis Burden of Disease dollars. the economic burden of disease in Britain, France, Canada and Austr