印度老年人中因性别和相关因素而产生的抑郁症:对年龄友好的政策的影响
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Ronak Paul1, T Muhammad1, Rashmi Rashmi1
1International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, 400088, India.
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概括
抑郁症对印度老年女性的影响比男性更大,婚姻状况,日常生活困难和健康状况对这种性别差距做出了重大贡献. 解决这些因素对于有针对性的心理健康干预至关重要.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
背景情况:
- 抑郁症是印度老年人的重要健康问题,尽管现有的心理健康政策.
- 抑郁症患病率和老年人中促成因素的性别差异需要在人口层面进行调查.
研究的目的:
- 为了检查印度老年男性和女性之间自我报告的抑郁症差异.
- 确定导致老年人抑郁症性别差异的相关因素.
主要方法:
- 利用来自印度长度衰老研究 (LASI) 第一波 (2017-2019) 的全国代表性数据.
- 包括30637名老年人 (60岁以上).
- 采用描述性统计学,奇方位测试,二进制逻辑回归和多变量分解分析.
主要成果:
- 老年女性报告的抑郁率较高 (9.5%),与老年男性 (7.4%) 相比.
- 重要因素包括自我评估的健康状况不佳,多病症,体力活动,ADL/IADL困难,生活不满,生活安排不满,虐待和寡妇.
- 婚姻状况 (36.7%),ADL/IADL困难 (17.6%的男性,34.0%的女性),自我评估的健康 (18.8%),社会参与 (4.4%) 和生活方式 (8.1%) 解释了性别差距.
结论:
- 抑郁症是一个严重的公共卫生问题,不成比例地影响着印度的老年女性.
- 调查结果强调,需要在政策和实践中制定性别特异性战略,以解决老年人抑郁症的问题.
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