Factors Associated with Depression among Elderly People Living In Old Aged Homes of Pokhara, Nepal

Dhungana, Ananta Raj

doi:10.37107/jhas.175

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“…82.6%. The above finding was in line with that of old-age home based cross-sectional study done in Nepal (80%), 4 and India(80%). 10 A similar study in Egypt showed a prevalence of 75%.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…3 Another similar study conducted in old-age homes in North India among 306 elderly revealed that 43.1% had some psychiatric illness with depression being the most common (53.7%). 4 The government of Nepal has declared the elderly citizens as people of age 60 years or more. 5 Like other developing countries, population ageing is a major public health concern in Nepal too.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Depression among Elderly Residing in Old-age Homes in Devghat, Nepal

Lamichhane¹,

Dhakal²

2022

Nep. J. Health Sci.

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Introduction: Depression among the elderly is a common phenomenon that is increasing at an alarming rate in recent years. Depression among the elderly leads to various physical and psychological problems and consequently poor quality of life. Objective: This study was aimed at assessing the prevalence of depression among elderly residing in old-age homes in Devghat, Tanahun, Nepal. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study design was adopted to assess depression among elderly residing in old-age homes of Devghat town in Tanahun district of Nepal. Non-probability enumeration sampling technique was used to collect the data. The validated Nepali translation of the Geriatric Depression Scale-15 was used to assess depression. Collected data were entered in SPSS version 22 and analyzed by using the Chi-square test. Results: Out of 155 respondents, 45.8% had mild depression followed by 36.8% who had moderate depression. A statistically significant association was found between the level of depression and marital status, educational status, asthma, and habit of smoking. Conclusions: This study showed that the prevalence of depression in old-age homes was very high. This necessitates the provision of regular screening and adequate support and initiatives from concerned authorities to uplift the mental status of these elderly people so that it does not affect their overall health and quality of life.

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“…82.6%. The above finding was in line with that of old-age home based cross-sectional study done in Nepal (80%), 4 and India(80%). 10 A similar study in Egypt showed a prevalence of 75%.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depression among Elderly Residing in Old-age Homes in Devghat, Nepal

Lamichhane¹,

Dhakal²

2022

Nep. J. Health Sci.

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“…In our study gender, education status wasn't statistically associated with depression while study done by Subedi et al found statistical association of gender (p=0.009) and education status (p=0.001 while Dhungana found statistical association of depression with gender (p=0.017). 14,21 Female were highly suffered from depression in both of the study. In the study done by Majdi et found 43.6% depression among male and 52.9% among female, study by Taqui et al found 15.7% depression among male 33% depression among female.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Another contradicts finding of study done by Dhungana found 80.7% of elderly people had depression. 21 This might be due to differences in the study settings; as it has been done in the old aged home where all the elderly people were away from their families. Another meta-analysis study done by Pilania et al showed aggregate prevalence of depression among elderly population about 34.4%.…”

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Study among geriatric people residing in urban and rural area and associated factor with depression in Nepal

Gaire

Gahatraj

Yadav³

et al. 2021

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Depression is a common and major public health problem among geriatric people, but it is not a normal part of aging. It is not just a low mood or feeling sad, but a serious condition that needs treatment and has serious effects on physical as well as mental health. It is one of the hidden problems of the geriatric people.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 196 elderly people from Kaski district of Nepal using geriatric depression scale to assess the level of depression. Wards of metropolitan was randomly selected and represented as urban area and ward of rural municipality were randomly selected and considered as rural areas. Data were collected by face-to-face interview among geriatric people. Data were analyzed by SPSS v.16 version. The appropriate statistical tests were applied based on the nature of the data, setting the level of significance at p<0.05.Results: Out of total 196 study participants 101 were from urban area and 95 from rural area. The overall prevalence of depression was 55.1%. In this study geriatric depression was significantly associated with: spouse status, living arrangement, satisfaction with living condition, family support, family care, abuse, relationship with son, relationship with daughter in law, work, discrimination, social isolation and loneliness and health problems.Conclusions: More than half of the elderly population had developed depressive symptoms. Immediate addressing of geriatric depression by providing health services, counseling and harmonious relationship among geriatric people and family members especially their son and daughter in law should be created by providing social support and counseling to family members.

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“…However, in the developing country like Nepal and in the rural background settlements where transportation to health centers are not easily accessible, the decision to take for treatment also gets adversely affected. Dhungana (2020) found that a female living alone with low economic status is highly suffered from depression with respect to males. Joshi (2020) asserts that elderly people are often on stress in life due to some unfulfilled expectations, physical inability to involve in social activities, abuse, living arrangements, ignored condition in decision making in the family, household size, and property ownership.…”

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Factors Associated with Decision Making in Treatment of Health Problems among Elderly People in Dhital, Kaski District

Dhungana

2020

Prithvi Acad. J.

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Self-determination of one’s own treatment process is one of the major decision makings of an individual’s life. It is even more crucial among elderly population as old age brings multiple physical and mental challenges to overall well-being of an individual. This paper aims to find the factors associated with decision making in treatment of health problems of the elderly people. The study was conducted in Dhital Village of Kaski District. Out of 198 elderly people with aged 60 years and above, 131 respondents (at 5% margin of error and 5% level of significance) were randomly selected using simple random sampling techniques. The information was collected by using semi-structured questionnaires through interview techniques. Chi-squared test was used to find the factors associated with the decision making in treatment. The decisions of more than two-third (69.5%) of the respondents were taken by their family members whereas almost one-third (30.5%) of the decisions were self-made. The proportion of the females who made their decision for treatment themselves is less than that of males. The results of the study showed that gender, literacy level, family type, money expensed for treatment, and walking distance to health centers were the major factors associated with decision making in treatment of health problems. It is believed that the findings of this study can help facilitate the better use of health facilities and add a significant contribution in the formulation of aging-friendly policies.

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Factors Associated with Depression among Elderly People Living In Old Aged Homes of Pokhara, Nepal

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Depression among Elderly Residing in Old-age Homes in Devghat, Nepal

Study among geriatric people residing in urban and rural area and associated factor with depression in Nepal

Factors Associated with Decision Making in Treatment of Health Problems among Elderly People in Dhital, Kaski District

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