Active Ageing Awareness and Quality of Life among Pre-elder Malaysian Public Employees

Nor Hana Ahmad  Bahuri; Hussein  Rizal; Mas Ayu  Said; Phyo Kyaw Myint; Tin Tin  Su

doi:10.3390/ijerph19159034

Active Ageing Awareness and Quality of Life among Pre-elder Malaysian Public Employees

Nor Hana Ahmad Bahuri, Hussein Rizal, Mas Ayu Said^* (Corresponding Author), Phyo Kyaw Myint, Tin Tin Su^* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

Increasing life expectancy has led to a global rise in late-life diseases. Quality of Life (QOL) is important for healthy life expectancy. The active ageing framework serves as a guide for policymakers to design policies that enhance the QOL of older people. This study aims to determine the association between awareness of active ageing and QOL. The Malay version of the 26-item WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was utilised along with the 14-item Active Ageing Awareness Questionnaire (AAAQ). A total of 532 participants had a mean (SD) age of 50.2 (5.9), were largely ethnic Malay (96.2%), female (52.8%), and comprised largely of low-income households (65.4%). The median (IQR) AAAQ score was 71.4 (19.1). The hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed significant positive association between AAAQ and the QOL domains of physical (β = 0.154, p < 0.001), psychological (β = 0.196, p < 0.001), social relationship (β = 0.175, p < 0.001), and environment (β = 0.145, p < 0.001) after adjusting for all covariates. Awareness of active ageing was found to have a positive effect on all domains of QOL among pre-elder employees, and thus, we recommend that policies to improve active ageing awareness should be implemented for healthy life expectancy in ageing populations

Original language	English
Article number	9034
Number of pages	19
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	19
Issue number	15
Early online date	25 Jul 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159034
Publication status	Published - 25 Jul 2022

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Funding: This research was funded by the Ministry of Higher Education via the Long Term Research Grant (LRGS) awarded to the Malaysia Research University Network (MRUN) with the grant code of LRGS/1/2016/UKM/02/1/2 (LGRS MRUN/F1/01/2019). Secondly, this research was also funded by the Postgraduate Research Grant—Research (PG146-2015B). The funder played no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Acknowledgments: The authors thank the non-professional group of employees from both the private and public sectors that participated and the Ministry of Health, Malaysia, forfacilitating the study

Keywords

active ageing
elderly
low-income
Malaysia
Older Adults
quality of life

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Active Ageing Awareness and Quality of Life among Pre-elder Malaysian Public Employees

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