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강지숙 ( Kang Ji-Sook ) - 이화여자대학교 건강과학대학 간호과학부
정여숙 ( Chung Yeo-Sook ) - 예수대학교 간호학부
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purposes of this study were to investigate factors related to the depression of the elderly dwelling in a big city, and to explore the influence of physical health, cognitive symptom and nutritional status on the elders’ depression.
Methods: After the approval of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and obtaining the participants’ consent form, a face?to?face and private interview was conducted with each participant from May, 2007 to Aug, 2007 by trained graduate level students. A total of 201 elders aged over 65 years participated in the study. The questionnaire consisted of K?GDS,
PHQ?15 and Nutritional Screening Initiative (NSI). Collected data were analyzed with the SPSS 13.0 program, which was used for frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression.
Results: The major findings of this study were as follows. 1) 28.4% of the subjects belonged to the depression group, 78.1% had one or more diseases, 85.6% had experienced somatic symptoms, and 49.7% belonged to the nutritional risk group. 2) Older age, lower educational level, more pocket money, a larger number of diseases, more severe cognitive symptoms and poorer nutritional status were significantly related to a higher depression score. 3) Significant factors influencing depression were nutritional status, cognitive symptoms and the number of diseases, which explained 38.1% of the variance of elderly depression, and nutritional status was the most influencing factor.
Conclusion: The finding of this study gives useful information for developing assessment tools and interventions for elders’ depression.
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KeyWords
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노인, 우울, 질병, 주관적 신체증상, 영양상태
Elderly, Depression, Disease, Cognitive Symptom, Nutritional Status
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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