Quality of life level description of elderly patients with hypertension using instruments WHOQOL-BREF in Ciereng Subang hospital
Jusron Iriawan, Ghaisani Nur Shabrina, Ali Taufan, Muhammad Adam Zulqarnain

Medical Faculty, Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani

Abstract

Ageing or elderly were the most growing population group and continued to increase as a proportion of the world population. Elderly were the most susceptible age group to physical complaints, either due to physiological factors or a disease. Most diseases which experienced by elderly was hypertension. According to Riskesdas West Java Province figured hypertension in Subang at 35.4%, or at the 4th in West Java. Hypertension in the elderly cause problems both from physical health, psychological, social relations and environmental, resulting in decreased quality of life of sufferers. The study design was a descriptive study to know the level of quality of life of elderly patients with hypertension using instruments WHOQOL-BREF in Ciereng Subang hospital. The total sample in this study are 93 people by using simple random sampling technique. Respondent data consist of 45 males (48,4%) and 48 females (51,6%). The results showed that the quality of life of the elderly in general quality of life was moderate (55.9%) while a good quality of life (32.3%), the dimensions of physical health got poor quality of life (60.2%), the dimensions of psychological well-being got poor quality of life (52.7%), the social relationship dimension being got moderate quality of life (79.6%) and on the relation between environmental dimension got moderate quality of life (83.8%). The conclusion of this study is quality of life of the elderly in general is good, only bad on the dimensions of physical health and psychological well-being.

Keywords: Elderly, hypertension, qulity of life, WHOQOL-BREF

Topic: Public Health