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标题：RESIDING STATUS, GENDER AND SPOUSE SURVIVAL STATUS AS THE DETERMINANTS OF GERIATRIC DEPRESSIONAMONG AGED
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作者：Priyanka Vyas ; C.P Khokhar
期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：3
页码：8845-8850
DOI：10.9756/INT-JECSE/V14I3.1022
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Present study is planned to ask the regularity of Geriatric Depression among the Aged over the age of 60 years, in relation to their Residing Status, Spouse Survival Status as well as their Gender. Considering the idea of the study and its objectives, advantageous sample size of 240 Old Age people, from both Old Age Homes as well as residing with their particular Families was equally considered. Psychological measure administered was the Geriatric Depression Scale (short form) developed by Yesavage J.A., Brink T.S., Rose T.L., et.al. (1983).t- test, mean score and ANOVA were run for the analysis of data through the software of SPSS. Obtained results indicates that in terms of residing status, aged individuals those were residing in the old age homes displayed higher geriatric depression in comparison to the ones who were residing with family members in families. females irrespective of residing status and the spouse survival status displayed greater Geriatric depression in comparison to males. The examination in setting of survival status of the spouse showed that the aged individuals who were residing alone, without company of a partner had a great sizeable amount of Geriatric depression in comparison to their counterparts of the aged individuals who were residing with their spouse.
关键词：Geriatric depression;residing status;spouse survival status;old age homes