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http://dx.doi.org/10.13067/JKIECS.2012.7.5.1181

The Relationship between Existence of Spouses and Depression of Korean Elderly  

Park, Hyung-Su (경기의료재단 영광하나의원)
Jung, Mi-Hwa (조선대학교 대학원 보건학과)
Yu, Jin-Ho (전남과학대학교)
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The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences / v.7, no.5, 2012 , pp. 1181-1187 More about this Journal
Abstract
The depression of the elderly decreases satisfaction in life and is also an important risky factor of their suicide. The subjects of the study were 615 males and 904 females aged above 65 who had the 2008 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey on the relations between presence of spouses and depression given by the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Through a chi-square test and a multiple logistic regression, the relations between general characteristics, contraction, health characteristics and depression were analysed. As a result of the multiple logistic regression for which age, family income, subjective health status, presence of activity limitation and stress were revised, the odds ratio of the males without spouses was 2.37(95% CI 1.03-5.45), which indicates that they had more depression than female subjects. However, for the female subjects, there were no relations between presence of spouses and depression.
Keywords
Spouse; Depression; Elderly;
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