LEVEL OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE ELDERLY PEOPLE IN NONTHABURI PROVINCE.

Natnicha  Hasoontree

Natnicha Hasoontree Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand,

Keywords: Quality of life, Elderly People, Personal Factors

Abstract

This research was aimed to study on a level of quality of life in the elderly people in Nonthaburi province and to study on a difference of quality of life by the personal factors. The sample group was 400 people by using the purposive sampling method, data was gathered by using the questionnaire and analyzed by using the descriptive statistics; mean ( ̅), standard deviation (S.D.), independent sample t-test, independent sample f-test and One –way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The findings revealed that 1) the overall of level of quality of life in the elderly people in Nonthaburi province was in the high level ( ̅ = 4.01) and when it was considered in each topic, it revealed that the environment was in the highest level ( ̅ = 4.17), the social relationship ( ̅ = 4.12), the mental factor ( ̅ = 3.97), the physical factor ( ̅ = 3.78) and the personal factors were not different in the quality of life.