Quality of life for elderly: development of questionnaire and pilot project

Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2024     |     PP. 22-39      |     PDF (429 K)    |     Pub. Date: July 24, 2024
DOI: 10.54647/pmh330351    21 Downloads     2829 Views  

Author(s)

Anny Rosiana Masithoh, Department of Nursing, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kudus, Indonesia
Rusli bin Nordin, Department of of Nursing, Mahsa University Malaysia
Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Pharmacology Unit Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences Monah University Malaysia
Amalia Rahmawati, Department of Nursing, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kudus

Abstract
Identifying the quality of life for elderly is needed to know the degree of healthy, comfortable, and enjoy the life for elderly. Those things become the crucial one for medical professional to take quality of life to give each patients’ treatment goals and use them as a guidance for all care decisions. This study aims to develop the questionnaire of the quality of life for elderly in nursing home. There are 30 respondents who live in the nursing home central java province, Indonesia as the sample in this pilot project research. The sampling has criteria, such as willing to be respondents, have been living in nursing home minimum 1 year, do not have verbal, hearing, and vision impairment, and able to communicate well. The instrument used are analysis documents of the result of questionnaire, expert validator sheet and back translation sheet. The questionnaire comes from SF-36 questionnaire then translated and developed based on the Indonesian condition. This research used 7 steps for conducting the research that consist of review literature, focused group discussion and in-dept interview, item generation and translation, item formatting, preliminary questionnaire, and pilot testing. The result of the test is the score of validity and reliability of the questionnaire. the validity test was done by using Pearson product moment with The P.value is less than 0.05. Moreover, the result of coefficient Cronbach’s Alpha is 0,986 that means it is more than 0,6. Therefore it can be concluded that the questionnaire was reliable.

Keywords
developing questionnaire, elderly, pilot project, quality of life

Cite this paper
Anny Rosiana Masithoh, Rusli bin Nordin, Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Amalia Rahmawati, Quality of life for elderly: development of questionnaire and pilot project , SCIREA Journal of Health. Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2024 | PP. 22-39. 10.54647/pmh330351

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