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Hamid Asayesh, Mostafa Qorbani , Mohammad Parvaresh Masoud, Hossein Rahmani Anarki, Hossein Ansari, Morteza Mansourian, Aziz Rezapour, Farshad Sharifi, Rasoul Mohammadi,
Volume 13, Issue 6 (9-2014)
Abstract
Background: Health staffs have different attitudes and beliefs toward elders that have effect on their behaviors in health service delivery to elders. This study was done for determination of Golestan province health centers general practitioners (GPs) attitude toward elders.
Methods: In this cross sectional study, 152 general practitioners of Golestan province health centers were selected via random sampling. The Kogan's Attitudes toward Older People Scale (KAOPS) questionnaire was used as data gathering tools. Data analysis was done in SPSS 16 software using Pearson correlation coefficient, paired t-test, t-tests and one way ANOVA test.
Results: Mean (standard deviation) of participants age was 34.73 (6.26) years. Mean (standard deviation) of total score of attitude toward elder scale was 115.48 (10.22) (score range in scale 34-204). 54.2 percent of GPs have lower score than mean. Negative attitude mean score were higher than positive attitude mean score which was statistically significant (P= 0.0001).
Conclusion: According to our finding, only half of GPs had favorite attitude toward elder. Whereas negative attitudes were higher than positive attitude toward elder, designing some programs for change in attitude of heath care staffs is necessary.
Mostafa Qorbani, Mohammad Parvaresh Masoud, Ali Soleimani, Hossein Rahmani Anarki, Leila Ghanbari Afra, Hamid Asayesh,
Volume 16, Issue 4 (9-2017)
Abstract
Background: health care providers have different attitudes and belies toward elders that have effect on their behaviors in health service delivery to older adults. This study was done to determine the Golestan province health centers staffs attitude towards elders.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 152 general practitioners of Glestan province health centers were selected via random simple sampling. Demographic questionnaire and Kogan's Attitudes toward Older People Scale (KAOPS) was used as data gathering tools. Data analysis was done in SPSS 16 software environment with Pearson correlation coefficient, paired t-test, t-tests and one way ANOVA.
Results: mean and standard deviation of participants age was 34.48 (4.31) years. Mean and standard deviation of total score of attitude toward elder scale was 116.42±9.58 (score range in scale 34-204). Lower score than mean were observed in 49.3 percent of health care providers. Negative attitude mean score were higher than positive attitude mean and paired t-test showed the difference is significant (P< 0.001).
Conclusion: according to our finding, only half of participants had favorite attitude toward aged people. Whereas, negative attitudes to this age group were higher than positive attitudes, designing some programs for change in attitudes of heath care staffs is necessary.
Zohreh Vares, Hamid Asayesh, Zahra Aliakbarzade Arani, Fatemeh Sharififard,
Volume 16, Issue 5 (10-2017)
Abstract
Background: Diabetes increases risk of incident or exacerbation geriatric syndromes in elderly and effect of different aspects of their life. This study was conducted to evaluate related factors in the quality of life of elderly diabetics.
Methods: This is a descriptive and analytic study that 88 elderly subjects with diabetes diabetic patients selected from 1400 cases in the age range 60-83 years have file in Kashan Diabetes Center in 2006. Samples were enrolled during about 2 months. Quality of life and a demographic questionaire were administered. The quality of life tool contained 41 questions that have been investigated in three dimensions: general (13-52 points), specificity (27-108 points) and overall (40-160 points). The relationship between QOL and other variables were analyzed by SPSS 16 using univariate and multivariate logistic regression models.
Results: Overall, 65.9% of patients were female and 34.1% male. Results has showed that there are significant relationship beetwin tingling, numbness and vision loss with the general quality of life and treatment type, kidney failure, tingling, numbness, and limb numbness with the special quality of life.
Conclusion: Considering the low quality of life in the majority of elderly diabetics and its role in the development of diabetic complications, results express severe need to care of the elderly and reaffirm the role of care in improvement the health level of older adults.
