IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v16y2019i2p284-d199392.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Study on Lifestyle Evaluation Systems for the Health of Chinese Elderly

Author

Listed:
  • Changliang Du

    (Department of Physical Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, Jiangsu, China)

Abstract

Background/Objective : China is now faced with a serious population aging challenge, and the health of the Chinese elderly is becoming an imminent concern. Consequently, it is critical to establish a lifestyle evaluation system for promoting the health of the Chinese elderly. Methods : Interviews with experts and questionnaire surveys were conducted. Factor analysis, analytic hierarchy process, and statistical analyses were also adopted in this study. Results : Besides evaluation metrics and standards, a two-level category system including 50 indices and associated weights from three level 1 categories (physical and mental health and social wellbeing) and thirteen level 2 categories were obtained. Discussion and Conclusions : Based on the confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach’s test, such an evaluation system excels in effectiveness and reliability, and is ready to be popularized in Chinese society. We expect that the Chinese elderly will benefit from our system and that it will lead to a healthy lifestyle accordingly.

Suggested Citation

  • Changliang Du, 2019. "Study on Lifestyle Evaluation Systems for the Health of Chinese Elderly," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-9, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:2:p:284-:d:199392
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/2/284/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/2/284/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jiyeon Yu & Angelica de Antonio & Elena Villalba-Mora, 2020. "Older Adult Segmentation According to Residentially-Based Lifestyles and Analysis of Their Needs for Smart Home Functions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(22), pages 1-21, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:2:p:284-:d:199392. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.