Physical and mental health status of elderly patients with peptic ulcer.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Physical and mental health status of elderly patients with peptic ulcer [Keywords:] Peptic ulcer; physical and mental health; health education Peptic ulcer (PU) mainly refers to the occurrence of ulcers in the stomach and duodenum, is the most common geriatric diseases, showing a worldwide distribution with approximately 10% of elderly people contracting this disease, followed by a series of abnormal mental activity, such as the lack of timely health guidance will affect the cure rate of patients to increase the recurrence rate. This paper reviewed PU in elderly mental health patients, to improve their quality of life for clinical basis. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 Clinical data from July 2000 to September 2004 the old hospital gastroenterology clinic for the PU PU group of 80 patients, 48 patients were male and 32 females, mean (60 + -3.8) years, were confirmed by barium X-ray contrast agent or gastroscopy confirmed; also randomly selected in a district without ulcer history of 80 cases of elderly people in the control group, male 46 cases, 34 females, mean (63 + -8.1 years). There were no serious adverse visual, hearing disorder, mental diseases, and age, gender, education, history, etc. There was no significant difference. 1.2 survey survey methods were complete A-type personality questionnaire, a total of 60 questions, including the time urgency (TH), wary and hostile, belligerent (CH), assessed by TH + CH personality type scores, scores more low, its spirit, physical health worse. Conair physical and mental health questionnaire used (CMI) survey of 16 projects, the answer is “Yes” and 1 point, answer “No” and 0 points. unified guidance language were completed in 2 w. According to CMI understanding of the purpose and total score in patients with physical and mental health status, the higher the score, indicating more severe psychosomatic disorder, the poorer their physical and mental health. by the researchers access to