Relationship between shopping and health-related quality of life for day-service rehabilitation users - From an occupational perspective -

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to consider shopping from an occupational perspective, and to clarify the relationships between health-related QOL and shopping. A questionnaire survey regarding shopping from domain of occupational characteristics and SF-8 was administered to of 56 elderly persons who use day-service rehabilitation. Of the 56 subjects, 30 persons did go shopping. As for SF-8, persons who did go shopping had significantly higher values for role physical, general health, vitality, social function, role emotional. Of the people who did go shopping, 24 persons went shopping for their leisure (leisure shopping), while six persons went shopping out of obligation (obligatory shopping). Persons who did obligatory shopping had significantly higher social functioning (p<0.01; effect size = 0.67). For day-service rehabilitation users, shopping was related to the level of general subjective health-related QOL. Compared with those who did leisure shopping, persons who did obligatory shopping had higher values only for social functioning.