Mengqi Du|Hongqian Kong|Lingyun Ran|Yuanyuan Ran|Leixao Bai|Yongxue Du|Hongxue Guan|Yong Dong|Ying Zhao
Associations among health-promoting lifestyle, self-care agency and health-related quality of life in Bai older adults with hypertension in Yunnan China
Columbia University|Yunnan Center for Disease Control And Prevention|Kunming Medical University|Hunan University of Finance and Economics|Kunming Medical University|Kunming Medical University|Kunming Medical University|Kunming Medical University|Yunnan Center for Disease Control And Prevention
previous chinese studies focused prevalence influential factors hypertension however little known selfcare literacy quality life among bai older adults hypertension purpose research explore associations among healthpromoting lifestyle selfcare agency healthrelated quality life bai ethnic older patients hypertension well related factors hypertension selfcare abilitiesa total 472 bai ethnic hypertension older adults aged 60 enrolled study voluntarily 5 rural communities bai ethnic group exercise selfcare agency scale escas employed assess selfcare ability hypertension subjects healthpromoting lifestyle profile iihplpii utilized evaluate health behavior mos 36item short form health survey sf36 chosen assess hrqol studying population descriptive analyses including demographic characteristics socioeconomic status clinical characteristics stratified bai hypertensive elderly pearson correlation analysis model used examine associations among healthpromoting lifestyle selfcare agency healthrelated quality life bai ethnic elderly hypertensionthe hplpii esca hrqol levels subjects low mean hplp esca scores significant statistical variance among different age groups significant statistical differences found bai elderly subjects domain pf ph well overall score sf36all p 001 6064 year group highest score three domains sf36 age groups sf36 scores positively associated hplp esca levelsthe hplpii esca hrqol levels bai subjects poor bai ethnic hypertensive elderly hrqol scores subjects positively connected hplpii esca abilities attention paid lifestyle healthy behaviors selfcare abilities improvements enhance better hrqol bai minority older adults hypertension