A Cross-section Study Of Status And Influence Factors On Quality Of Life Of Urban Community Residents In Nanchang City

Objective: To describ status and find risk factors of QOL of urban community residents in Nanchang city and provid evidence of the correspond educations for the local government through the QOL investigation of this population.Methods: Took the whole population aged above 18 and below 70 in the counmunity residents of Nanchang city as the target population. 6070 people were sampled from the total population by multiple stages sampling. These people were asked to complete the general questions, WHOQOL-BREF(chinese version) and influence factors table. After being sorted, it would be analyzed by such as t-test, ANOVA, and the multiple regression models, using SPSS 13.0 and Epidata3.0.Results:1. The physical and social scores were middling while the environmental and psychological scores were lower in the resident population.2. The scores of the resident population, compared with the average QOLs' scores of the whole country, the physical, psychological and social scores were lower while social combined healthy scores and environmental scores were higher.The P-values of them are as follows: 0.000, 0.000, 0.001, 0.000, 0.000. The scores of the resident population, compared with the data from WHOQOL centre, the physical, psychological, social and environmental scores were lower. The P-values of them are as follows: 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000.3.The result of multiple regression shows that the top ten influence factors of physical QOL are appetite, frictions between family members, age, the healthy status, the frequency of eating pork, beef and mutton, hypertension patient or not, the frequency of eating fruit, taking medical insurance for urban workers or not, a administrater of public institutions or not, the frequency of eating aquatic and marine products. The top ten influence factors of psychological QOL contains appetite, age, taking strenuous exercises, taking medical insurance for urban workers or not, financial situation , the frequency of eating dairy product, the frequency of eating pork, beef and mutton, the frequency of eating chicken ,duck and goose, a administrater of public institutions or not, the frequency of physical check-up. The top ten influence factors of social QOL contains appetite, frictions between family members, age, unmarried or not, the frequency of eating pork, beef and mutton, the frequency of eating fruits, a administrater of public institutions or not, taking strenuous exercises, divorced or not, the frequency of eating dairy product. The top ten influence factors of environmental QOL contains appetite, the frequency of eating fruits, financial situation , taking light-to-moderate exercises, frictions between family members, the frequency of eating chicken ,duck and goose, receiving free medical service or not, the frequency of eating aquatic and marine products, a administrater of public institutions or not,a privately business man or not.Conclusions: The QOL of residents in every domain should be taken more attention. The residents should take some effective measures to improve their QOL such as taking some physical trainings, reading some books about health, having healthy lifestyles, and so on.