摘要
目的探讨我国农村地区老年人照料者的社会支持、卫生服务使用及精神卫生状况及其相互关系。方法采用社会支持量表、社会网络量表、卫生服务使用问卷、流行病学调查用抑郁自评量表对199位60岁以上老人的长期照料者进行评估。结果大多数照料者为老人的配偶、儿子和儿媳。照料者最常使用的卫生服务方式为看医生。回归分析表明,抑郁量表评分与照料者年龄和收入、受照料老人性别和年龄、照料时间及社会网络量表总分有密切关系。结论我国农村地区家庭在老人照料中承担着主要角色,大多数照料者选择使用医疗服务资源。照料过程中出现的抑郁体验与照料者及受照料老人的背景有关,社会支持力量可能起一定中介作用。
Objective To investigate the status of social support,health service use and mental healt among caregivers for the elderly in a Chinese rural community.Methods 199 caregivers providing long-term care for the elderly recruited were asseased with the social support scale（SSS）and social network scale（SNS）,health service use（HSU）and depression scale（CED-S）.Results Most caregivers were the elder＇s spouse,son and daughter-in-law.Three common health service used by the caregivers were visiting physician,Regressive analysis showed that score of depression scale were associated with caregivers＇ age and income,care-recipients＇ gender and age,caring time and the total SNS score.Conclusions In Chinese rural area,family provides main sourcc for caregiving to the elderly.Most of the elderly caregivers utilize medical resources.Depression during the process of caregiving is associated with caregivers and care-recipients＇ background characteristics,with potential mediator effect of social support.
出处
《中国老年学杂志》
CAS
CSCD
北大核心
2006年第2期145-147,共3页
Chinese Journal of Gerontology
基金
美国NIHFogarty国际中心研究与培训项目(5D43TW05809)
美国Alzheimer'sAssociation资助项目(NIRG-04-1184)资助
