Mental health status quo of elderly in urban communities and its influencing factors
Abstract：Objective:To know the mental health status quo of the elderly in urban communities and to analyze its influencing factors,so as to provide references for the development of mental health interventions.Methods:A total of 1 208 residents in urban communities aged 60 years old and above were chosen from Weihai city,Wei-fang city,and Liaocheng city by stratified random sampling method.And they were investigated with self made general information questionnaire and Kessler 10 Scale with a face to face survey.Results:The score of Kessler 10 Scale of urban communities’elderly was(14.36±4.63)points.Totally 909 people were in good men-tal health,accounting for 75.2%.Single factor and multifactor analysis showed that the mental health influen-cing factors of elderly in the urban community including education,spouse status,living status,chronic disease prevalence,friend status and so on(P<0.01).Conclusions:Most of the elderly in the urban community have a good condition of mental health.While there are many influencing factors.One should pay more attention to the mental health problems of the elderly and achieve the healthy and active population aging.
Keywords：elderlyurban communitymental healthKessler 10 Scaleinfluencing factors
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 26-29 )