高干病房空巢和非空巢老年患者心理健康状况调查

Psychological status of empty and un-empty nester elderly patients in the senior cadreinpatient ward

目的:调查高干病房空巢和非空巢老年患者的心理健康状况及其相关因素。方法:方便抽取高干病房内36名空巢老年患者和30名非空巢老年患者,使用综合性医院焦虑抑郁量表对住院空巢和非空巢老年患者的心理健康状况进行调查。结果:36名住院空巢老年患者和30名住院非空巢老年患者的焦虑、抑郁状况得分无统计学差异(P>0.05)。66名患者中,只有75.76%(50名)的患者既不存在焦虑也不存在抑郁情绪,其余24.24%(16名)的老年患者均存在不同程度的焦虑、抑郁问题,有6.06%(4名)的老年患者焦虑、抑郁情绪并存。抑郁情绪随年龄增加而增强(rs=0.312,P<0.05)。焦虑评分与抑郁评分间具有中度正相关(rs=0.579,P=0.000)。结论:护理人员应积极调动患者的社会支持系统,开展有针对性的心理护理及其他干预措施,转移和缓解高干病房住院空巢老人和非空巢老人的心理压力,以利于其心理健康的发展。

Objective： Tinvestigate the psychological status of empty and un-empty nester elderly patients in the senior cadre inpatient ward and related factors. Methods： The convenient sampling method was used to recruit 36 empty nester elderly and 30 un-empty nester elderly from the senior cadre inpatient ward. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale （HADS） was utilized to assess their anxiety and depression status. Results： There was no statistic difference on the score of anxiety and depression between the empty and un- empty nester elderly patients （P〉0.05）. And 75.76% （50 cases） of them were without either anxiety or depression; the others （24.24%, 16 cases） were with different level of anxiety or depression. There were four （6.06%） elders having both anxiety and depression. Depression increased along with age increasing （r~=0.312, P〈0.05）. There was a positive correlation between anxiety score and depression score （r8=0.579,P=0.000）. Conclusions： Nurses should strengthen social support for elderly patients, and implement pertinent mental care and other interventions to decrease and transfer their psychological stressors, then improve their mental healthy status as well.