Investigation of depression disorders and its influencing factors among senile patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in rural-urban fringe
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1672-7088.2009.04.030
- VernacularTitle:城乡结合部老年2型糖尿病患者抑郁症状及其影响因素的调查
- Author:
Hualing HUANG
;
Hong LI
;
Huifen ZHAO
;
Meiduo WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Type 2 diabetes mellitus;
Aged;
Depression;
Epidemiologic survey;
Rural- urban fringe
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2009;25(10):62-65
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate depression disorders and its influencing factors among senile patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) in rural-urban fringe in order to supply reference for commu-nity nursing intervention for it. Methods This study was conducted among 323 residents above 60 years old in Gushan town, Fuzhou City. CES-D (center for epidemiology survey-depression scale) and ADL (ac-tivities of daily living scale) were used to evaluate the depression condition and related factors in these pa-tients and the results underwent analysis. Results 25.7% of people with diabetes had various degree of depression, among which 13.3% might had depression and 12.4% had depression definitely. Patients with loss of spouse, living along,reduction of self- care ability and low BMI showed higher incidence of depres-sion. Variables went into the unconditional multivariate logistic regression equation included marriage status and BMI. Conclusions T2DM patients with loss of spouse, living alone,reduction in self-care ability of daily living and low BMI are high risk population of depression. It was proposed that psychological nursing for the aged should be the important content of community nursing.
