Correlation between Personal Competence of Health Care and Quality of Life among Middle-Aged Adults

This study was conducted to identify the relationship between personal competence of health care(PCHC) and quality of life among middle-aged adults. Data were collected using questionnaires from 412 middle-aged parents of university student. There were significant differences in PCHC and quality of life according to educational level, family support, monthly income, exercise over 3times a week, subjective health status. However, religion and drinking made a differece only in PCHC on the other hand, sex and disease affected quality of life. All subdomains of PCHC had significant positive correlations with quality of life. Factors predicting quality of life among subdomains of PCHC were health perception, sociocultural relationship and socioeconomical involvement, which explained about 50.3%. These results indicate a need to develop programs to improve health perception, sociocultural and socioeconomical competence for middle-aged adults. ■ keyword :∣Personal Competence of Health Care∣Quality of Life∣Middle-Aged Adult∣Adult ∣ * 이 논문은 2015년도 광주보건대학교 교내연구비의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임(No. 3015020 ) 접수일자 : 2016년 12월 09일 수정일자 : 2017년 01월 03일 심사완료일 : 2017년 01월 20일 교신저자 : 임유진, e-mail : yjlim@ghu.ac.kr 중년기 성인의 건강관리역량과 삶의 질의 관계 199