• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.515-524
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was examined to identify effects of suicidal though on health status social support, and life satisfaction in elderly. Method: The subjects consisted of 123 elderly. The data collected from June to July 2012 were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression. Result: The mean scores of health status ($2.47{\pm}.70$), social support ($3.36{\pm}.90$), and life satisfaction ($2.90{\pm}.60$) were above the average. And suicidal thought ($.51{\pm}.37$) was below the average. Health status, social support, life satisfaction, and suicidal though were significantly different according to generalized characteristic. Significant correlations were found between health status, social support, life satisfaction, and suicidal thought. Health status was influencing factors of suicidal thought (26.6%). Conclusion: These findings indicate that perceived health status, social support, and life satisfaction may be necessities to decrease suicidal thought of elderly.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.138-145
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to identify factors influencing suicidal ideation for the elderly living alone. Utilizing the identified factors as the base data, the study aims to develop community programs for suicide prevention. This research is a secondary analysis of the 2017 national survey, 'Survey on the Elderly,' conducting logistics regression analysis on the data collected on 10,299 elderly aged 65 or older living in 17 general residential facilities as of 2017. The analysis reveals that 10.5% of the elderly living alone have contemplated suicide. The frequency of suicidal ideation was attributed to such factors as gender, age, chronic disease, depression and experiences of abuse and discrimination. To prevent suicide among the elderly, therefore, active management from both public and private sectors are needed for early detection of chronic diseases and depression.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.65-72
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a suicide prevention program on pain, depression, meaning of life, and suicidal ideation of low-income women aged 80 or older in rural area. A non-equivalent control group pre-post test study design was used. The participants were 89 women, aged 80 or older of a project for employment from O & K province. (experimental group = 45, control group = 44). The experimental group were participated in a total of eight-session, once a week. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, 𝑥²-test, t-test using SPSS 26.0 program. After a eight-week of intervention, the experimental group showed significant differences in depression (t=-2.19, p=.031), meaning of life (t=2.13, p=.036), and suicidal ideation (t=-2.11, p=.038). Therefore, the study program has proven to be effective in reducing depression and suicidal ideation, and improving the meaning of life of participants.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.79-86
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to identify suicidal ideation and related factors of elderly people with diabetes mellitus living alone in rural area. A descriptive study design was used. The participants were 466 elderly people, aged 65 years and over, and diagnosed with diabetes mellitus living at O province in South Korea. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, χ²-test, and logistic regression analysis with SPSS statistics 26.0 program. The results of the analysis showed that the suicidal ideation rate of the subjects was 27.3%, and the subjects showed significant differences in suicidal ideation as Cognitive function was lower (t=-4.23, p<.001), Depression(t=9.56, p<.001) and Loneliness (t=4.88, p<.001) were higher. Related Factors of suicidal ideation were Cognitive function (OR=0.86, p<.001), Depression (OR=1.18, p<.001) and Loneliness (OR=1.17, p=.001). These variables explained 32.2% of suicidal ideation. Therefore, in order to reduce suicide ideation of the elderly with diabetes mellitus living alone in rural areas, intervention that can improve Cognitive function, Depression, and Loneliness is needed.

• 한국노년학
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.247-258
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• 2014

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of resilience and depression on suicidal ideation in elderly. The survey was conducted by 335 subjects (aged 65 to 70 years old; both gender) living in Daegu and Gyeongbuk district. Data were collected through interview-based questionnaires which were constructed to include the general characteristics(8 items), suicidal ideation(19 items), depression(15 items), and resilience(27 items). Collected data were analyzed by frequency, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and regression analysis. The present results showed that the main general factors affecting the resilience of elderly were age, the type of dwelling, pin money, and health. The influencing factors on suicidal ideation were health status, depression level, and the resilience in elderly. In particular, the suicidal ideation was more affected by self-regulation and affirmation of the subcategory in resilience. In conclusion, the resilience and depression is need to be considered as one of the main factors for decreasing the suicidal ideation in elderly.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.445-458
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• 2015

This research is aged 65 or older with chronic pain and social support, are subject to the elderly wanted to know the effect on depression and suicide intention. This research was done through targeting elderly with chronic pain who use welfare center. The data collection period from April 20 in 2014, implemented by May 20. finally 178 kinds of types of data were analyzed. The collected data is Person's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis by using SPSS 18.0, t-test, ANOVA. In this research results chronic pain, depression and suicide was observed a significant correlation between the degree of social support appear also showed a significant negative correlation of depression and suicide. Also, chronic pain can affect the degree of social support, suicide was identified as the most powerful variable impact on depression. The elderly with Chronic pain is more severe the higher the degree of suicide, The results were lower social support is also of increasing depression and suicide. There fore family and social care and social support services need to develop for prevent depression and suicide for the elderly, also needs programs invention for chronic pain as well.

• 한국노년학
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.173-200
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• 2017

This study is designed to verify the actual effect on the prevention of the elderly suicide of the integrated crisis intervention service which has been widely provided across all local communities in Gyeonggi-province focusing on the integrated crisis intervention model developed for the prevention of elderly suicide. The integrated crisis intervention model for the local communities and its manual were developed for the prevention of elderly suicide by integrating the crisis intervention theory which contains local community's integrated system approach and the stress vulnerability theory. For the analysis of the effect, the geriatric depression and suicidal ideation scale was adopted and the data was collected as follows; The data was collected from 258 people in the first preliminary test. Then, it was collected from the secondary test of 184 people after the integrated crisis intervention service was performed for 6 months. The third collection of data was made from 124 people after 2 or 3 years later using the backward tracing method. As for the analysis, the researcher used the R Statistics computing to conduct the test equating, and the vertical scaling between measuring points. Then, the researcher conducted descriptive statistics analysis and univariate analysis of variance, and performed multi-level modeling analysis using Bayesian estimation. As a result of the study, it was found out that the integrated crisis intervention model which has been developed for the elderly suicide prevention has a statistically significant effect on the reduction of elderly suicide in terms of elderly depression and suicide ideation in the follow-up measurement after the implementation of crisis intervention rather than in the first preliminary scores. The integrated crisis intervention model for the prevention of elderly suicide was found to be effective to the extent of 0.56 for the reduction of depression and 0.39 for the reduction of suicidal ideation. However, it was found out in the backward tracing test conducted 2-3 years after the first crisis intervention that the improved values returned to its original state, thus showing that the effect of the intervention is not maintained for long. Multilevel analysis was conducted to find out the factors such as the service type(professional counseling, medication, peer counseling), characteristics of the client (sex, age), the characteristics of the counselor(age, career, major) and the interaction between the characteristics of the counselor and intervention which affect depression and suicidal ideation. It was found that only medication can significantly reduce suicidal ideation and that if the counselor's major is counseling, it significantly further reduces suicidal ideation by interacting with professional counseling. Furthermore, as the characteristics of the suicide prevention experts are found to regulate the intervention effect on elderly suicide prevention in applying integrated crisis intervention model, the primary consideration should be given to the counseling ability of these experts.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.644-654
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of depression, self-esteem and daily life ability on suicidal ideation in elderly people with chronic illness. The subjects were 170 outpatients and inpatients in a general hospital in D city. After conducting questionnaires for data collection, t-test, ANOVA and multiple regression analysis were performed and analyzed using SPSS 12.0 / win program. The results showed that suicidal ideation was influenced by gender, health status, chronic disease diagnosis, and experience of suicide attempt, with a positive correlation with depression and a negative correlation with daily life ability. The suicide attempt experience, depression, self-esteem and daily living ability showed 50.8% explanatory power against suicidal ideation. In order to reduce suicidal ideation, it is necessary to reduce suicidal ideation of elderly people with chronic diseases by managing an intervention program that reduces depression and improves daily life ability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.870-878
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• 2021

This study aimed to identify how social contact, depression, and anxiety influence suicidal ideation of the elderly related to general characteristics. The objects were 198 elderly living in Mungyeong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do. The data were collected from 2, March to 15, April 2021. Collected data were analyzed by t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple stepwise regression analysis using SPSS 24.0. Findings revealed 1) Pearson's correlation coefficient indicated significant association among social contact, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation 2) Multiple regression analysis showed that the influencing factors have 44.9% of explanation power in suicidal ideation of the elderly: depression(β=.430, p< .001), perceived financial status(β=-.198, p<.001), psychiatric treatment history (β=-.182, p=.002), and social contact (β=-.155, p=.007) in order. The conclusion of this study indicates that we need to pay interdisciplinary attention to the mental health of the elderly in the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on the findings, health professionals should provide elderly persons with comprehensive and appropriate management to prevent suicidal ideation upon factors. Additionally, there should be establishing a system to access and ensure social contact for the elderly.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.301-315
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• 2019

This study's aim was to prove the mediating effects of the life satisfaction and the depression in the path which the social participant has predicted the suicide ideation of the elderly. To do so, a total of 1,429 cases above 65 years old were selected as a analysis object form the Seoul Welfare Pannel Data(2010). And this study has applied the Structural Equation Modeling of AMOS 18.0 as analysis method. The analysis results were as below through presented analysis method. Firstly, this study has proved the effect of the direct path that the social participant predicted the depression of the elderly. Secondly, this study has demonstrated the effect of the mediating paths through the life satisfaction and the depression. On the basis of presented analysis results, this study proposed the intervention plan about the suicide of the elderly and the suggestion for follow-up study.