Importance of Assessing Overall Quality of Life in the New Millennium : A Japanese Perspective

评估新千年整体生活质量的重要性：日本的视角

基本信息

批准号：
09480011
负责人：
TANAKA Kiyoji
金额：
$ 8万
依托单位：
University of Tsukuba
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
财政年份：
1997
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1997 至 1999
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-09480011/
关键词：
elderly QoL functional fitness vital age physical fitness age healthy status aging exercise 総合的QOL指標身体機能水準運動プログラムライフスタイル QOL 身体的活力精神的活力

项目摘要

In our research project, we initially assumed that (1) physical health or physical vitality, (2) mental health or mental vitality, (3) economic status, and (4) "other" variables constitute important dimensions of overall quality of life (QoL). Physical vitality is evaluated by vital age, functional fitness (or activities of daily living) age, etc., while mental vitality can be evaluated by life satisfaction index, subjective QoL index, stress index, etc. The "other" variables consist of food intake, nutritional status, body composition, social environment, etc. Thus, overall QoL is a multi-dimensional characteristic for healthy, independent living and may be used as a good indicator for successful aging. Ample epidemiologic evidence suggests that exercise plays an important role in the maintenance of health-related QoL. On the assumption that regular engagement in exercise or physical activities extends the healthy lifespan of Japanese adults, we have developed a number of health-related QoL indices specifically aimed at older people. Those health-related QoL indices consist of vital age, functional fitness age, bone mineral content, bone-free and fat-free lean tissue mass, cardiorespiratory fitness, food and nutritional status, life satisfaction, and resistivity against stress. Many of the above factors in each dimension were formulated as a composite indicator to enable us to compute a score for each individual. Overall QoL can be evaluated by combining the individual item scores. Usefulness of the overall QoL score will be further examined in more detail.

在我们的研究项目中，我们最初假设（1）身体健康或身体活力，（2）心理健康或心理活力，（3）经济状况，以及（4）“其他”变量构成整体生活质量的重要维度（生活质量）。身体活力可以通过生命年龄、功能适应（或日常生活活动能力）年龄等来评价，精神活力可以通过生活满意度指数、主观生活质量指数、压力指数等来评价。“其他”变量包括食物因此，整体生活质量是健康、独立生活的多维特征，可以作为成功老龄化的良好指标。充足的流行病学证据表明，运动在维持健康相关的生活质量方面发挥着重要作用。假设定期参加锻炼或体育活动可以延长日本成年人的健康寿命，我们开发了一些专门针对老年人的健康相关生活质量指数。这些与健康相关的生活质量指数包括生命年龄、功能健康年龄、骨矿物质含量、无骨和无脂肪瘦组织量、心肺健康、食物和营养状况、生活满意度和抗压能力。上述每个维度中的许多因素都被制定为综合指标，使我们能够计算每个人的分数。总体生活质量可以通过结合各个项目的分数来评估。整体生活质量评分的有用性将得到更详细的进一步检验。