代謝症候群患者之知識、憂鬱與生活品質相關研究

Correlations Among Knowledge, Depression, and Quality of life in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

目的：本研究目的為探討代謝症候群患者之人口學資料和疾病特性，對患者疾病知識、憂鬱及生活品質的影響。方法：採橫斷式相關研究方法，以立意取樣於北部某地區教學醫院新陳代謝門診收案共161位個案，問卷包含人口學基本資料及疾病特性、代謝症候群疾病知識、憂鬱、生活品質等資料，進行建檔與統計分析。以描述性統計、T-test、one way ANOVA、Pearson積差相關方法檢測各變項之相關性。結果：研究發現代謝症候群研究對象，在生理指標方面疾病知識與年齡（r=-0.409, p降低憂鬱及提升生活品質之成效。（澄清醫護管理雜誌2019；15（3）：24-33） Purposes This study aimed to investigate the influence of demographic data and disease characteristics of patients with metabolic syndrome on disease knowledge, depression, and quality of life in the patients. Methods A cross-sectional study design was adopted, and 161 patients from the metabolism clinic of a regional teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan were included in the study through purposive sampling. Using a questionnaire survey, data such as basic demographic data, disease characteristics, knowledge of metabolic syndrome, depression, and quality of life were collected from the patients for documentation and analysis. Descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation were used to determine the correlations between various variables. Results From the results of the study, it was found that disease knowledge was significantly and negatively correlated with age (r=-0.409, p