Empty-nesters Xuzhou mental health and related factors.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Empty-nesters Xuzhou mental health and related factors Of: Dingsong Ning Xu Xiaolin Huang level Zhao Huashuo [Abstract] Objective To study the Xuzhou urban empty-nesters mental health and related factors. Methods A random cluster sampling method Xuzhou four community study area, using self general questionnaire, psychiatric symptom checklist (SCL 90) were tested. Results empty-nesters somatization factor, fear factor worse than the norm (P lt;0.01); mental health of men than women (P lt;0.05); relationship with his wife, income, and child relationship, body health and mental health status are related. Conclusion empty-nesters in Xuzhou low level of mental health, older women should be concerned about mental health affected by many factors. [Keywords:] empty-nesters; mental health; related factors With the acceleration of the process of aging, empty-nest families increasingly common social phenomenon, followed by empty nesters increased physical and mental health problems, and especially mental health problems (1). How to achieve healthy aging has been not only a major public health problem, or a complex social issue. in recent years that a small number of (2 ~ 4) were empty-nesters of mental health-related factors, but mostly confined to Beijing, Shanghai and other developed areas, less relatively backward regions to the center of Xuzhou Huaihai lack of relevant research areas. To improve the quality of life for the empty nest elderly, to provide information to the elderly, we carried out empty-nesters in Urban Area mental health and related factors . 1 Subjects and methods 1.1 The study used random cluster sampling method 4 in Xuzhou urban communities home survey of 400 questionnaires, 370 valid roll (response rate 92.5%), of which 247 were empty nest group, non-empty nest Section 123. Inclusion criteria: Agegt; = 60 years; awareness, language skills normally. Exclusion criteria: a consciousness of the elderly; elde