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KMID : 0892719970010010107
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Journal of the Korean Society of Maternal and Child Health
1997 Volume.1 No. 1 p.107 ~ p.117
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Comparison of Depression Level of the Middle-aged Women by Menopausal Stage
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Park Kyung-Min
Ko Hyo-Jung
Kim Hye-Young
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to compare depression level and identify the variables that
associated with the depression of the middle-aged women in the menopause. The study
subjects included 289 mothers of college students(4 colleges in 1 university) in Taegu
City whose age was between 40 and 59 years old. The instrument used in this study as
Beck Depression Inventory(BDI) developed by Beck(1978) and translated into Korean by
Lee(1981). The Cronbach alpha index for the reliability of BDI in this study subjects
was 0.82. There were significant differences in the age (p<0.001), marriage period(p<0.001), the number of children(p<0.001), support of spouse(p<0.01) and health status (p<0.05) by menopausal stage.
Depression level was higher for the women in the menopausal stage than the women
in the premenopausal and postmenopausal stages (F=.35, p=.0139). Menopausal stage was associated with the depression level when all the other variables that were significantly associated with depression level were controlled by the ANCOVA (F=4.97, p=0.0076). Seventeen percent of variance of depression level was explained by the support of spouse and health status for the women at the premenopausal stage, 25% was explained by the satisfaction of marriage and family income for the women at the menopausal stage, and 20% was explained by the health status and family income for the women at the postmenopausal stage.
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KEYWORD
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Depression level, menopausal stage, beck depression Inventory(BDI), middleaged women
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