Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
6.SAYKAD Uluslararası Sağlıkta Yaşam Kalitesi Kongresi, İzmir, Türkiye, 21 - 23 Kasım 2019, ss.628-637, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Objectives: The history of this descriptive study examines the relationship between quality of life and risk of malnutrition and falls in the elderly. Methods: This research was carried out in Malatya Training and Research Hospital and Inonu University Turgut Özal Medical Center between 01.04.2019-01.09.2019. The sample of the study consisted of 250 elderly patients who volunteered to combine. Data, opportunity to benefit from literature Sociodemographic Characteristics Form, Standardized Mini Mental Test (SMMT), Morse Fall Scale, World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Elderly Module (WHOQOL-OLD), Mini Nutritional Assessment Test-Form (MNA-SF) face-to-face method collected with. SPSS 23 package program is used. Inonu University Health Sciences Non-Interventional Clinical Research and Publication Ethics Committee, Malatya Training and Research Hospital, Malatya Province Center, Inonu University. Results: The mean age of the male subjects was 70.08 ± 4.76 years, and the mean age of the female subjects was 74.26 ± 4.83 years. The mean Body Mass Index (BMI) was 29.81 ± 4.68 kg / m2 for males and 32.39 ± 5.85 kg / m2 for females. The mean energy intake of the individuals was 1960.41 ± 512.90 kcal in males and 1523.61 ± 352.10 kcal in females (p <0.05). According to the results of Mini Nutrition Assessment (MNA), 72.9% of the individuals had no nutritional problems and 27.1% had a risk of malnutrition. There was a statistically significant difference between gender and the incidence of malnutrition (p <0.05). Malnutrition risk was higher in females (32.3%) than males (6.9%) (p <0.05). The mean score of the key areas of the WHOQOL-OLD Quality Of Life Scale should be evaluated, with sensory abilities there being the highest average with 17.04 ± 2.01, and with the lowest occurring with death and dying with 10.49 ± 3.55. Approximately one third (39.2%) of the sample reported a history of falls over the past year. The majority of the decreases in the last year (39.6%) occurred in the home environment. In the last year, a statistically significant correlation was found between the total number of falls and the mean scores of the Morse Fall Risk scale (rs = 0.55, p = 0.01). There was a positive correlation between total quality of life score and MNA (r = 0.459, p = 0.000), and a negative correlation (r = -0.703, p = 0.000) and a statistically significant correlation between fall risk. Conclusion: Inadequate nutrition and high risk of falling reduces the quality of life of individuals. Elderly individuals should be given nutritional education to gain healthy eating habits. Quality of life should be improved by improving the nutritional status of individuals and preventing the risk of falling. Nurses should monitor the elderly at regular intervals to prevent or prevent nutrition-related illnesses and to reduce the risk of falls. Keywords: Elderly, Malnutrition, Fall Risk, Quality of Life, Nurse