Depression in the elderly in rural communities the prevalence of influencing factors.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Depression in the elderly in rural communities the prevalence of influencing factors [Abstract] Objective To investigate the rural communities, the prevalence of depression in the elderly, to understand their risk factors for the development of prevention and control measures to provide a scientific basis. Methods A cluster random sampling method, as well as descriptive analysis, Logistic regression analysis. Results The prevalence of depression was 5.9%. Univariate analysis showed that gender, marital status and whether the smoking prevalence rate of depression among the elderly difference was statistically significant. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that women, health, self-assessment in general, economic self-assessment is poor, living alone, sad mood and terror experienced increased prevalence of elderly depression, often with others can reduce the prevalence of depression. Conclusion sex, marital status, health self-assessment, and economic self-evaluation and negative life events in depression in the elderly in rural communities of illness risk factors. [Keywords:] prevalence rate of In order to understand the elderly in rural communities in Anhui Province prevalence of depression and the possible impact of factors, some of the elderly population in rural communities to conduct the survey. Now report on the results as follows. An object and methods 1  1 object selection in Anhui Province Tang Dian Ying County, the town is located in Northern Anhui, in order to Fuyang, Bozhou and Huainan City, at the junction of three places. Tang Dian extract all 16 administrative villages in 60 years of age and older as of the survey. Actual survey 1624 persons were 1600 valid questionnaires. 1  2 Method 1  2  1 survey instrument - Geriatric Mental State (GMS) scale adoption of the University of Liverpool Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry, Professor Copeland designed Geriatric Mental State Schedule 〔 1〕 (Geriatric