WOMEN’S HEALTH PREPAREDNESS BEFORE ENTERING THE AGEING
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the situation of women’s health preparedness before entering the Ageing. Data derived from the “National Survey of Elderly population in Thailand, 2014” by the National Statistical Office. The target population was 9,344 respondents aged 50 years old who preferred to answer the questionnaire by themselves. The general characteristics and health preparedness of samples will be analyzed and explained by descriptive statistics.
The results showed that the average age of samples was 55 years old with 82.30% of marital status. Most of them were Buddhist (96.10%) with the education level at primary or lower (76.01%). On the average, the samples had three children. In term of the family relationships, it could be divided into three patterns. Firstly, 38.95 percent of samples had child visitation at least once a year. Secondly, 38.45 percent of them have daily contacted each other by phone. Finally, there was no contact via the internet which accounted for 94.11%. Moreover, the average income per year was 30,000-59,999 Baht (32.62%). Most of them had the working income. 77.30% of samples were satisfied with their financial situation and did not want to work after retirement (49.22%). 62.55 percent of samples were healthy and 51.74 percent had the annual health check from the government service sectors.
In term of the health preparedness, we found that the most of health preparedness that samples had been done well was nonsmoking. However, 15.55 percent of samples had no exercise, 28.18 percent of them drink water less than 8 glasses a day and 26.16 percent did not eat fruits and vegetables. It could be anticipated from these results that those samples possibly had no time to do exercise especially people with low income those work hardly and hesitate to care for their health. Therefore, Women who are not prepared should be encouraged to receive health promotion and be alerted or campaigned for well-being.
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