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- Fagerström, Cecilia, et al.
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Determinants of Feeling Hindered by Health Problems in Daily Living at 60 Years and Above
- 2008
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - Oxford : Blackwell Publishing. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 22:3, s. 410-421
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) is frequently used to identify the impact on daily living caused by health problems such as diseases, impaired eyesight or hearing, it is still not well known what makes people feel hindered in daily living with more or less inability to perform ADL. The aim of this study was to investigate feeling hindered by health problems in daily living among people (n = 958, 60-96 years) in relation to ADL capacity, health problems as well as social and financial resources, sense of coherence and life satisfaction. The data are taken from a baseline survey in one of the four included centres (Blekinge) of the longitudinal multicentre cohort study, The Swedish National Study on Aging and Care. The result showed that people felt hindered by their health problems despite no impairment in ADL capacity. Feeling greatly hindered by health problems was associated with factors linked to mobility but also to fatigue, no help when needed, and avoiding being outdoors due to fear of falling. Factors associated with feeling greatly hindered differed depending on whether people were impaired in ADL capacity or not. In people with excellent ADL capacity feeling hindered was associated with picking up things from the floor and rising from a chair and fatigue, whereas avoiding being outdoors, no help when needed and rising from a chair were found to be associated with feeling hindered by health problems among people with impaired ADL capacity. Combining people's ADL capacity with questions about feeling hindered may provide knowledge of determinant factors of feeling hindered in relation to ADL capacity, impaired or not, to identify people in need of rehabilitation or other interventions.
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-, et al.
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Feeling hindered by health problems at age of 60 and above
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Nursing Research Conference : Facing the Challenge of Health Care Systems in Transition. - Jerusalem.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reduced capacity to perform activities in daily living (ADL capacity) is not the only thing significant for people and their life satisfaction, the importance people attach to being able to perform a specific activity is also crucial. Personal interests may have an impact on the importance of an activity. The ADL scale provides information about functional impairment, but it provides no understanding of the time or effort it takes to perform a certain activity or if a specific individual has to give up valuable activities. More knowledge is therefore needed about what makes people to feel hindered by their health problems in daily living. The aim of this study was to investigate how people (n=958) aged 60–96 years feel hindered in daily living in relation to their ADL capacity, health problems, social and financial resources, sense of coherence, and life satisfaction. The data is taken from a questionnaire and a medical examination which were carried out in a baseline survey in one of the four including centres (Blekinge) of the longitudinal multi-centre cohort study The Swedish National study on Ageing and Care (SNAC). Response rate was 61%. Data indicated that in people with preserved ADL capacity, feeling hindered in daily living meant, above all, fatigue. At the same time, for people with impaired ADL capacity, feeling insecure about available help and about going outdoors were factors that contributed to people feeling hindered by health problems. Accordingly, when nurses, as well as other health professionals, plan to carry out interventions for preventive and rehabilitative purposes, as well as when making follow ups as ADL capacity declines, they should be aware of the fact that different factors are associated with the feeling of being hindered in daily life in people with or without impaired ADL capacity.
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