2024, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part C

author(s)
Gita Sahoo, Jashoda Biswas and Poulomi Karmarkar

abstract
A descriptive comparative survey was conducted on Quality of life among senior citizens in selected rural and urban community, Bankura district, West Bengal, to assess the quality of life among senior citizens, to compare the quality of life among senior citizens of rural and urban community and to determine the association between quality of life with selected demographic variables. By simple random sampling 106 (53 from rural and 53 from urban community) senior citizens were selected. The conceptual framework adopted for the study was based on modified health belief model (2006). Data were collected by semi structured demographic proforma and standardized WHOQOLBREFSCALE. The study finding revealed that, there was significant difference in the quality of life among senior citizens of rural and urban community (‘t’ = 7.19, p< 0.05). In this study, maximum senior citizens (36%) had poor quality of life in rural community whereas maximum senior citizens (30%) having good quality of life in urban community. It also depicted that, senior citizens of both rural community and urban community had lowest quality of life score in the social relationship domain with the mean percentage 67.53 and 71.46 accordingly. This study also showed that, there was significant association between quality of life among senior citizens in rural community with their economic dependency (?2=5.12, p>0.05). There was significant association between quality of life among senior citizen in urban community with their gender (?2=4.94, p>0.05). Based on the findings it was recommended that, further study could be undertaken using the large sample in different setting. The study has several implications for nursing practice, education, administration and research.