Social Support and Quality of Life Among Older Adults in South Kalimantan, Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study
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https://doi.org/10.51143/jksi.v11i1.1089Keywords:
Aged, Community Health Nursing, Older adults, Quality of Life, Social supportAbstract
Globally, many countries are experiencing population ageing and will continue to do so over the next several decades, including Indonesia. As the world’s population ages, there will be a growing demand for health care services that improve the quality of life as well as longevity. In ageing populations, the desire to spend the most advanced years in a good self-assessed health condition has gained more relevance. To cope with the challenges arising from this trend, most older adults prefer to remain in their familiar environment in the community and live with some level of independence. The purpose of this study is to analyze the corelation between social support and quality of life among older adults. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 94 respondens aged 59 and above. Data were collected using validated instruments Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOS-SSS) and World Health Organization Quality of Life–BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) Indonesian version. IBM SPSS 29.0 software was used for Spearman’s rank correlation test. The study results indicate that there is a significant correlation between social support and QoL. these results underscore the importance of interventions aimed at strengthening social networks, promoting family involvement, and fostering community empowerment as strategies to improve community quality of life.
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Ahmadi, M., Kazemi-Arpanahi, H., Nopour, R., & Shanbehzadeh, M. (2023). Factors influencing quality of life among the elderly: An approach using logistic regression. Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_13_23
Badan Pusat Statistik. (2020). Statistik Penduduk Usia Lanjut 2020.
Bremer, B. A., & Brooks, L. J. (2025). Social support as a coping strategy. Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health.
Clark, M. J. Dummer. (2015). Population and community health nursing. Pearson.
Geigl, C., Loss, J., Leitzmann, M., & Janssen, C. (2023). Social factors of health-related quality of life in older adults: a multivariable analysis. Quality of Life Research, 32(11), 3257–3268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-023-03472-4
Gobbens, R. J. J., & van der Ploeg, T. (2021). The prediction of mortality by quality of life assessed with the WHOQOL-BREF: a longitudinal analysis at the domain and item levels using a seven-year follow-up period. Quality of Life Research, 30(7), 1951–1962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-021-02790-9
Gyasi, R. M., Phillips, D. R., & Abass, K. (2019). Social support networks and psychological wellbeing in community-dwelling older Ghanaian cohorts. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(7), 1047–1057. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610218001539
Hu, Q., Toonsiri, C., & Hengudomsub, P. (2024). Factors affecting quality of life among older adults with hypertension in Wenzhou, China: A cross-sectional study. Belitung Nursing Journal, 10(6), 654–661. https://doi.org/10.33546/bnj.3565
Jesus, D., Oliveira, N., Oliveira, N., Bolina, A., Marchiori, G., & Tavares, D. (2022). Social support among older adults understood through structural equation modeling. In Rev Bras Enferm (Vol. 75, Issue 4).
Jiang, N., Ye, H., Zhao, X., & Zhang, Y. (2025). The Association Between Social Support and the Quality of Life of Older Adults in China: The Mediating Effect of Loneliness. Experimental Aging Research, 51(2), 232–246. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2024.2376966
Lei, Y., Bai, H., Zhang, S., Xin, Q., Kang, H., & Meng, L. (2025). Association between subjective cognitive decline and life-space mobility in a community-based elderly adults: a moderated mediation model of depression and perceived social support. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 38(1), 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-025-03294-z
Lindsay Smith, G., Banting, L., Eime, R., O’Sullivan, G., & van Uffelen, J. G. Z. (2017). The association between social support and physical activity in older adults: A systematic review. In International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (Vol. 14, Issue 1). BioMed Central Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0509-8
Motahari, N., Torkan, H., & History, A. (2025). The Relationship Between Distress Tolerance and Perceived Social Support with Life Satisfaction among Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes Article Info. Research Article Motahari & Torkan, 10(4), 469–486. https://doi.org/10.22126/JAP.2025.11373.1814
Ola, M., & Mathur, R. (2018). Various environmental factors and their impact on subjective well-being on the older adults. Indian Journal of Health and Well-Being, 9(1), 89–92. https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/ijhw/article/view/166532
Ou, S. R., Yoo, S., & Reynolds, A. J. (2021). Educational Growth Trajectories in Adulthood: Findings From an Inner-City Cohort. Developmental Psychology, 57(7), 1163–1178. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001198
Rodriguez, P. M., & Selvam, D. (2025). Quality Of Life Of The Elderly: A Narrative Review. IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS), 14(4), 58–62. https://doi.org/10.9790/1959-1404035862
Uddin, M. A., Soivong, P., Lasuka, D., & Juntasopeepun, P. (2017). Factors related to quality of life among older adults in Bangladesh: A cross sectional survey. Nursing and Health Sciences, 19(4), 518–524. https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12385
United Nations. (2017). World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision. https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-prospects-2017-revision
United Nations. (2023). World Population Ageing 2023: Challenges and opportunities of population ageing in the least developed countries.
Vancampfort, D., Lara, E., Smith, L., Rosenbaum, S., Firth, J., Stubbs, B., Hallgren, M., & Koyanagi, A. (2019). Physical activity and loneliness among adults aged 50 years or older in six low- and middle-income countries. In International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (Vol. 34, Issue 12, pp. 1855–1864). John Wiley and Sons Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5202
Wiesli, T. X., Hammer, T., & Knaus, F. (2022). Improving quality of life for residents of biosphere reserves and nature parks: management recommendations from Switzerland. Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, 18(1), 601–615. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2100128
Wiesli, T. X., Liebe, U., Hammer, T., & Bär, R. (2021). Sustainable quality of life: A conceptualization that integrates the views of inhabitants of swiss rural regions. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(16). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169187
