노인 대퇴골 골전환자의 수술 후 기간별 일상생활기능 회복에 대한 종단적 연구

A Longitudinal Study on the Recovery of Daily Living Activity and the Influencing Factors on it in Postoperative Elderly Patients with Femur Fracture

Many elderly patients with a femur fracture could not fully recover their previous level in the activities of daily living (ADL). The purpose of this study was to evaluate longitudinaly the fun ctional recovery of daily living activities and to investigate the inf luencing factors on it in the postoperative elderly patients with fractured hip. The subjects were consisted of 31 patients over 60 years old who received surgery for femur fracture at Chonnam national University Hospital from May 1 st, 2000 to Mar. 31 st, 2001. Data were collected through individual interviews by using a questionnaire. The results may be summarized as follows. 1. The level of ADL recovery at the time of discharge from the hospital was - 46.8 point, recovery rate was 49.6%. The ADL recovery of 3 months after discharge was - 34.1 point and 66.8%, 9 f!1onth after was -10.6 point and 88.6%. 2. The factors on the recovery of 9 month after discharge were sex (t = 2.52, p = .02), associated disease (t = 4.54, p = .04), and using a dining table (t = 2.24, p = .04). Female was lower than male in the recovery of house working, the patients who had another disease were lower than those of the other in the recovery of total ADL, the group of not using a dining table was lower than those of the others in the recovery of pain.