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KMID : 0607720070180030391
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Journal of Korean Community Nursing
2007 Volume.18 No. 3 p.391 ~ p.399
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Stress, Depression and Health Risk Behaviors in Korean Elders
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Kim Ae-Jung
Kim Ok-Soo
Baik Sung-Hee
Jang Jong-Hwa
Kim Jung-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate stress, depression and health risk behaviors in elderly people.
Methods: The subjects were 238 Korean elders who had visited the convalescent center. The level of stress was
measured by the Korean version of BEPSI, which was developed by Bae, Jeung & Yoo (1992) and modified by Yim et al.(1996). CES-D was used to measure the level of depression. For health risk behaviors, we measured cigarette consumption and alcohol drinking during the last one month.
Results: Of the subjects, 17.4% were excessive drinkers and 18.9% were currently smokers. The level of stress was between moderate and high, and 62.7% of the subjects were depressed. There were significant differences in stress and depression according to economic status and self-reported health. In addition, depression had positive correlations with stress and QF score.
Conclusion: Stress and depression management programs for the elderly are needed. These findings indicate that nurses must consider stress and alcohol drinking when they take care of depressed elderly people.
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KEYWORD
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Stress, Depression, Health Behaviors, Elderly
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