Level of Stress and Coping Strategies among Institutionalised and Non-Institutionalised Elderly
| العنوان: | Level of Stress and Coping Strategies among Institutionalised and Non-Institutionalised Elderly |
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| المؤلفون: | Soumya Raj, N Amulya, Anagha Raj M |
| المصدر: | Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development. |
| بيانات النشر: | Institute of Medico-legal Publications Private Limited, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Coping (psychology), media_common.quotation_subject, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Perceived Stress Scale, Loneliness, Psychological disturbance, Feeling, Scale (social sciences), Stress (linguistics), medicine, Elderly people, medicine.symptom, Psychology, media_common, Clinical psychology |
| الوصف: | Objective: The objective of the study is to assess and compare the level of stress and coping strategiesexperienced by the institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly.Methods: A descriptive comparative research design and convenient sampling was used in this study, withthis technique the researcher selected 70 sample from community (Nayarambalampanchayath) and 70samples from two old age homes. Demographic Proforma, Sheldon Cohen Perceived Stress Scale and theDeakin Coping Scale were used to assess and compare the level of stress and level of coping.Result: Among institutionalized elderly people 18.6% are having no stress, 32.9% are having mild stress.37.1% are having moderate stress and 11.4%are having severe stress .Among non institutionalized elderly37.1% are having no stress,55.7% are having mild stress,7.1% are having moderate stress and none ofthem having severe stress. While considering level of coping among institutionalized elderly people 21.4%members coping strategies are not effective,50% are having effective coping strategies and 28.6 are havingmost effective coping strategies. Among institutionalized elderly 18.6 are having not effective copingstrategies,62.9% are having effective coping strategies and 18.6% having most effective coping strategies.There is a significant correlation between stress and coping among institutionalized elderly.Conclusion: The feeling of loneliness along with the natural age related decline in physical and psychologicalfunctioning makes elderly prone to psychological disturbance,so institutionalized elderly feels moremoderate and severe stress than non institutionalized elderly. |
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| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::cac77b55241a3fbb172588d866ec6c14 https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v11i3.1360 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........cac77b55241a3fbb172588d866ec6c14 |
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