Anxiety in elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and its influencing factors.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Anxiety in elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and its influencing factors Of: Wang Xingzhou Xuling Zhong Cheng Jun Ding Yan Yuan Qing Liu Zhimin 1] [Abstract] Objective Objective anxiety in elderly patients with the incidence of tuberculosis and its affecting factors. Methods A stratified random sampling method samples, the use of self-made questionnaire on tuberculosis patients and anxiety related to self-assessment scale (SAS) for interview-type survey. Results The incidence of anxiety elderly TB patients was 8.6%; the main factors affect the incidence of anxiety is whether to inform others of tuberculosis, is suffering from TB and the return of suicidal thoughts. Conclusions Elderly patients with tuberculosis a higher incidence of anxiety and anxiety primarily by their behavioral responses to disease affected, in the treatment of elderly patients with tuberculosis should be accompanied by psychological counseling. [Keywords:] Aged; tuberculosis; self rating anxiety scale; Anxiety According to the 2000 Fourth of tuberculosis epidemiology survey, among subjects aged over 60 account for only 11.7 percent population of subjects, but active tuberculosis cases, smear-positive cases and smear positive cases account for the number of different types of patients 40.9%, 37.1% and 41.6%; in our elderly population, TB problem is more severe than other age groups (1). physical health affect mental health, psychological health and influence disease occurrence, development, transfer return have an impact. domestic Anxiety Rating Scale for Anxiety in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and factors affecting the study (2,3), but no anxiety in elderly mental patients with tuberculosis evaluated studies, only through clinical observation of the elderly pulmonary tuberculosis patients expression, behavior analysis to determine anxiety reported in the literature (4,5). This study used self-made questionnaire and self-rating anxiety s