The aim of this study was to examine the spouse effects on depressive symptom and suicidal thinking among the elderly aged 65 and over in Korea. The subjects selected from the database of the

In this study, PASW Statistics ver. 18.0 was used to analyze the correlation between chewing difficulty and osteoarthritis in the population of 8,498 persons aged 50 years and older who had completed the health related questionnaire in the fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2010∼2012. The following conclusion was drawn: The distribution of the chewing difficulty status showed that 38.8% of the respondents had chewing difficulty and that there was no significant difference by gender. Older respondents tended to have significantly greater chewing difficulty 34.3% of the respondents aged from 50 to 64 years and 46.4% of those aged 65 years and older, those who had lower levels of education and income, who were smokers, and who had higher levels of depression and stress suffered from significantly greater chewing difficulty. Chewing difficulty and osteoarthritis were correlated with each other: the respondents having chewing difficulty had 1.44 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.23∼1.70) higher prevalence of osteoarthritis than those with no such difficulty. In addition, such correlation was not found in males: the former had 1.36 (95% CI, 0.98∼1.88) higher prevalence of osteoarthritis than the latter, which was not statistically significant. Such correlation was found in females: the former had 1.47 (95% CI, 1.22∼1.76) higher prevalence of osteoarthritis than the latter, which was statistically significant. Therefore, the chewing difficulty status affected osteoarthritis for females aged 50 years and older. Therefore, the efforts to solve oral health problems through oral hygiene would help prevent osteoarthritis from worsening and manage the condition.

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between working environments and parenting burden in women workers. Methods: A total of 1,033 married women were selected from the database of the 7th Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Family (KLoWF). Parenting burden and working environments were calculated based on responses of the KLoWF. Univariate and multivariate analyses ware performed to assess the crude and adjusted associations using PASW 18.0. Results: There was an independently positive association between excessive working (b = 0.37, p < 0.001), irregular working (b = 0.17, p < 0.001), temporal oppression on workload (b = 0.08, p = 0.011) and parenting burden in women workers after adjusting for socio-demographics. Conclusions: This study suggests that working environments are important factors for parenting burden in women workers. The findings of this study will be helpful to policy makers to design plans to decrease the parenting burden in women workers.

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