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KMID : 0869120010030010011
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기초간호자연과학회지
2001 Volume.3 No. 1 p.11 ~ p.28
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Stress, immune cells, physical health status and depression of elderly
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서순림/Soon Rim Suh
홍해숙/Hae Sook Hong
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Abstract
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This study was to identify the levels of perceived perceived stress, immunity cells, physical health and depression, and their relationships among those variables in the elderly who institutionalized comparing home residents. The result of this
study
can be used as basic data when applying nursing interventions to increase quality of life in the elderly. The questionnaires to estimate stress, health status and depression were collected through direct interview from July to August in 1999 and
immunity cells were measured by venous blood specimen collected from 9 to 10 A.M. during the same period. The collected data were analysed using SAS program. The results were as follows. The score of perceived stress of all subjects was 38.49 and
perceived stress score of institutionalized elderly(42.62) was significantly higher than that in home resident elderly(34.52). All immune cells tested in this study such as total T cell, helper T cell, suppressor T cell, T4/T8 ration, total B
cell,
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NK cell, were all under the standard criteria of cells distributions. Most edlerly who institutionalized and reside home replied that their health status was not good. However their physical health activity was mostly good even though
institutionalized
elderly had more disability than home residents. The highest rate was 67.3% as disability due to arthritis. The score of depression in all subjects was 8.2 that indicated having depressive symptom. There was no difference in the depression level
between
institutionalized elderly and home resided elderly. There was a significant correlationship between physical health and depression, however, the rest of varibles did not show any significant relationships. In summary, the immune cells in the
elderly who
replied perceiving low level stress, was under normal range. Their health status was perceived as 'not good' but physical health activity was perceived as 'good'. The relationships of stress, immunity, physical health and depression were
partially
significant but not had evidence as enough as theoretically the suggested relationship. We suggest that further studies using large sample size and more diverse variables should be perofrmed.
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