Survey of depression status and its influencing factors of elderly people in rural areas of Suzhou
Zhang Shuangj iao
Hang Ronghua
Liu Huan
Abstract：Objective:To understand the depression status and its influencing factors of elderly people in rural ar-eas of Suzhou.Methods:The elderly residents with 60 years or abover received the questionnaire by using the general situation questionnaire,Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS),Social Support Revalued Scale (SSRS).Re-sults:The GDS scores was(9.46 ±5.95),and 180 people had symptoms of depression(40.1%),the differences of depression incidence among the elderly people with different genders,ages,culture degree,marriage status, status of suffering from chronic disease,economic security,entertainment,family relationships were statistically significant.GDS score was negatively correlated with social support(r =-0.339).Two classification Logistic regression analysis showed that male,having economic non illiteracy security of culture degree and good family relationship were the protective factors;while old age and suffering from chronic diseases were the risk factors of depression.Conclusion:The depression problem of elderly people in rural areas of Suzhou was more promi-nent;the depression incidence of elderly people could be reduced by increasing social support,preventing chronic diseases,establishing a good family relationship and so on.
Keywords：rural areas of Suzhouelderly peopledepressioninfluencing factorssocial support
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 2448-2451 )