Effects of e-health literacy and health promoting lifestyle on quality of life for community disabled elderly
ZHANG Nan
GAO Chunxia
WANG Aiyuan
WU Yixue
Abstract：Objective To investigate the status quo of e-health literacy,health promoting lifestyle and quality of life of community dis-abled elderly,and analyze the impact of e-health literacy and health promoting lifestyle on their quality of life.Methods A total of 125 com-munity disabled elderly in Qingdao were investigated by the general information questionnaire,the Short Form-36 Health Survey,the eHealth Literacy Scale and Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile-Ⅱfrom January to June 2022.Results The score of the quality of life was(42.12±3.22),the e-health literacy was(23.30±7.45),and the health promoting lifestyle was(99.34±9.00).The linear regression analysis showed that e-health literacy and health promoting lifestyle were the factors affecting the quality of life(P＜0.01).Conclusion The community disabled elderly's quality of life is at a low level.Some measures can improve their quality of life,such as increasing attention to low-income disabled eld-erly,improving their ability to use the Internet to find health information,and encouraging them to adopt healthy lifestyle.
Keywords：disabled elderlye-health literacyhealth promoting lifestylequality of life
Publication Date：2023-10-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 854-858 )