Analysis On Quality Of Life And Its Influencing Factors For The Widows Of The Retired Veteran Cadres In Taian Zone

With the increasing trend of aging population, the problem of old people's quality of life is drawing more and more attention. In recent years, domestic and foreign scholars have done a lot of researches on old people's quality of life, some researches on the special old people's quality of life are also developed continuously. But the researches on the widowed old people's quality of life is few. The majority of the widowed old people in the army sanatoriums are the widows of retired cadres, it has yet found out reports about the quality of life for the widows of retired veteran cadres in the army sanatoriums. By questionnaire survey, this thesis researches on the quality of life and its influencing factors for the widows of the retired veteran cadres in Taian zone.Methods: Using WHO Quality of Life Scale WHOQOL-BREF, to survey the quality of life for 159 widows of the retired veteran cadres in 6 army sanatoriums in Taian zone. Through the software of epidata2.0 and the software of SPSS13.0 to entry data and statistical analysis, statistical methods includ anova, t-test and multivariate linear regression analysis.Results: 1. 96.86% of the widows of retired cadres is suffering from different kinds of chronic diseases, the top five ordinal of chronic diseases are high blood pressure, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, hyperlipidemia, diabetes. 2. The four fields quality of life score of widows of retired cadres by 100 points after conversion is 61.79±12.07, showing their quality of life is at the midding level. 3. The different fields' quality of life score of widows of retired cadres from high to low is as follows: social index (74.21±14.53), environmental index(63.58±13.53), psychological index(58.05±13.39),self-assessment score of the quality of life(56.13±22.45), physiological index(51.33±17.65) , self-assessment score of health(49.84±22.24), indicating that the objective evaluation for the widows of the retired veteran cadres in army sanatoriums in Taian zone is higher than the subjective evaluation. 4. Self-assessment score of the quality of life for the widows of retired cadres was positively correlated with monthly family income per capita and living style, was negatively correlated with age. Self-assessment score of health was negatively correlated with chronic illness, was positively correlated with weekly exercise time; physiological index score was negatively correlated with chronic illness and age; psychological index score was negatively correlated with chronic illness and age, was positively correlated with Cultural degree and living style;social index score was negatively correlated with age; environmental index score was positively correlated with monthly family income per capita, was negatively correlated with age.Conclusions: 1. The quality of life for the widows of the retired veteran cadres in Taian zone is at the midding level. 2. Hypertension, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes are the main kinds chronic diseases of the widows of the retired veteran cadres in Taian zone. 3. The main factors Influencing the quality of life for the widows of the retired veteran cadres in Taian zone are: age, chronic diseaseas economic income, physical exercise, living style and cultural degree.Suggestions: The first is that the widows of the retired cadres can be supported when they are old by further improving service safeguard level; the second is that the widows of the retired cadres can be treated when they are ill by further satisfing medical care needs;the third is that the widows of the retired cadres can be happy when they are old by further enriching stylistic recreational activities;The fourth is that the widows of the retired cadres can be understood when they are confused by further making psychological comfort.