P0165 - Relationship between mental health and previous agreement of elderly people living in nursing home

Abstract

Background and Aims:

One of the most important affecting factors on mental health of elderly people residing in nursing home is previous preparing for living in nursing home, therefore this study has been performed to assess relationship between mental health and previous agreement of elderly people on living in nursing home.

Methods:

A descriptive-Analytical study with aim-centered sampling was performed on 56 elderly people residing on Golabchi nursing house –Kashan-IRAN 2007. including factors were normal IQ, and lack of serious mental disease and Alzheimer .The standard mental health Questionnaire (GHQ28) was used and the scores less than 23 was mentioned as health .some other like demographic factors, family residing in nursing house and …were assessed too. The descriptive statistics and χ2 were used to analyze the data.

Results:

There was significant relationship between previous agreement on living in nursing home and mental health (p<%4).the rate of mental health in whom completely disagreed on living in nursing home was 42/2% whereas in whom completely agreed on living in nursing home was 66/07% . There was no significant relationship between mental health with gender, Education, previous job, existence of other family in nursing home .the rate of male and female in this research were 35/7% and 64/3% respectively.

Conclusion:

Regards to importance of previous agreement on living in nursing home for elderly people it's a must to prepare them and establish appositive attitude on living in these centers on them.