Prevalence of religiosity, family function, social support and deppresive symptoms in old people. Cali, Colombia, 2001.

Colombia Médica

Julián A. Herrera²  Héctor A. Saa²  José Mauricio Ocampo²  Carlos A. Reyes Ortiz¹  Nhora Romero² 

[1] Universidad de Texas Medical Branch;Universidad del Valle

关键词: Religiosity;    Family function;    Social support;    Depression;    Old patient;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Universidad del Valle * Facultad de Salud / Universidad del Valle, Faculty of Health

【 摘 要 】

Objective:To determine the prevalence of religious practice, family dysfunction and social support in older people with deppresive symptoms.Methods:A descriptive study was performed in La Selva Health Center (Cali, Colombia) during 2001. Measures used were depression (GDS-Yesavage Scale), intrinsic/extrinsic religiosity measurement (Gorsuch-McPherson), family APGAR (Smilkstein scale) and frequency of religious practice. Univariate and bivariate analyses were performed.Results:136 subjects were recruited with an average age of 69.2±6.4 year old, 78 (57%) were male, 82 (60%) were married, 21 (15%) were widowers, 133 (97.8%) were believers or had religious practice; 90% were catholics, 126 (93%) of patients prayed at least once day, 60 (44.4%) had intrinsic religiosity, 46 (33.8%) extrinsic religiosity, and 16 (11.8%) mixed religiosity; 40 (29.4%) had family dysfunction, 69 (50.7%) had not an adequate social support; 10 (7.3%) had high depressive symptoms (GDS >5/15) and 5 (3.7%) had severe depressive symptoms (GDS >10/15). The presence of chronic diseases, and being a widower had more frequency in older people with deppresive symptoms (pConclussion:Male gender, presence of chronic diseases and being a widower had more frequency in old people with deppresive symptoms (p

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