J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs.  2017 Mar;28(1):1-12. 10.12799/jkachn.2017.28.1.1.

Predictors of Quality of Life among Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren: An Ecological Approach

• Min D
• Kim S

• KMID: 2376707
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2017.28.1.1

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting quality of life among grandparents raising their grandchildren.
METHODS
This study carried out a secondary analysis of data from the 2014 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA) and Statistics Korea. Data collected from 224 grandparents who reported raising their grandchildren were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA, pearson correlation coefficient, and multilevel regression analysis.
RESULTS
The mean score of the participants' quality of life was 62.63. Significant predictors of quality of life of the grandparents included subjective health status, last year's total house income, number of last year's travels, frequency of last year's movie seeing, and number of children's parks per 100,000 population.
CONCLUSION
These results suggest that public health nurses in improving quality of life of grandparents focus on children's parks and formal social supports as community factors as well as regular exercise as an individual factor in order to be more effective.

Keyword

Grandparent; Quality of life; Multilevel analysis

MeSH Terms

Aging
Diagnostic Self Evaluation
Grandparents*
Korea
Longitudinal Studies
Multilevel Analysis
Nurses, Public Health
Quality of Life*

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