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Residential status and depression among Korean elderly people
— a comparison between residents of nursing home and those based in the community | | Author(s) | Soondool Chung |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 16, no 4, July 2008 |
| Pages | pp 370-377 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Depression ; Living in the community ; Comparison ; Korea. |
| Annotation | Two sets of secondary data were combined and used to achieve the objectives of this study that compared the extent of depression in nursing home and community-dwelling older people, and those variables that explain depression in Korea. One data set was part of the 2002 Kyunggi Long-term Care system Construction Study by Kyunggi Research Institute (for those in nursing homes), the other was part of the 2001 National Long-term Care Study by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (for community-dwelling older people). The data set for this study included 307 older people living in nursing homes and 166 older people living in the community. Depression was measured and determined using the Geriatric Depression Scale short form (GDS-SF) Korean version, with scores of 8 or higher to indicate possible depression. 39% of the community sample showed symptoms of depression, higher than for the nursing home sample (24%). The mean (standard deviation) GDS-SF score for those in the nursing home was 6.1 (3.4), and 7.4 (4.3) for those in the community, the difference being statistically significant. As a result of multiple logistic regression analysis, residential status has appeared as an important predictor after controlling for other related variables. The adjusted odds ratio of depression associated with the nursing home residents in residential status, all other factors being equal, was 3.14. Those living in the community had higher odds of depression. These findings suggest that there is a need to provide adequate health related care services for older people in the community. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080703206 A |
| Classmark | KX: ENR: K4: 48: 7DK |
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