云南省宁洱县农村老年人抑郁状况及其对生命质量的影响研究

目的 分析云南省宁洱县农村老年人的抑郁状况及其对生命质量的影响.方法 采用多阶段分层随机法抽取宁洱县1629名60岁及以上农村老年人进行现场面访,问卷内容包括基本信息、抑郁量表GDS-30和简明健康量表SF-36,采用GDS-30评价其抑郁程度,SF-36量表评估其生命质量得分.结果 云南省宁洱县农村老年人的抑郁率为1...

Prevalence of Depression and Its Impact on Quality of Life among Rural Elderly People in Ninger County,Yunnan Province

Objective The aim of this study was to analyze prevalence of depression and its impact on quality of life among elderly people in rural Yunnan province.Methods A multi-stage stratified random method was used to select 1629 rural people aged 60 years and over in Ninger county.Each participant received a face-to-face interview.Questionnaires include basic information,Geriatric Depression Scale-30 and Concise Health Scale SF-36.GDS-30 was used to evaluate the degree of depression and SF-36 scale was used to assess quality of life score.Results The prevalence of depression among the participants was 12.0%,which was 8.9%for men and 14.2%for women.Women,older people with lower level of education,lower annual per capital family income and poor access to medical services had higher prevalence of depression than their counterparts(P<0.05).Non-depressive older people had lower scores in domains of physical functioning(PF),role physical(RP),bodily pain(BP),general health(GH),vitality(VT),social functioning(SF),role emotional(RE),mental health(MH),physical component summary(PCS),and mental component summary(MCS)than depressive older people(P<0.001).The results of multiple linear regression showed that female、low educational level and depressive elderly people tended to have lower scores in PCS and MCS domain(P<0.05).People with low annual household incomes tended to have lower scores in MCS domain(P<0.05).Conclusion Depression reduced the quality of life of rural elderly people in Ningler county,Yunnan province.Focus should be put on mental health status of local population with high risk to reduce the prevalence of depression and improve the quality of life.