The State of Elderly Coping with Stress

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the state of elderly copingwith stress. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted sixty years old and over 106individuals living at home within society. As data collection forms, a survey-formcontaining socio-demographic characteristics of...

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Published in:Clinical and experimental health sciences (Online) 2018-10, Vol.8 (4), p.256
Main Authors: SİNAN, Özlem, KOÇ, Ayşegül
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Aging
Chronic illnesses
Data collection
Health sciences
Life
Older people
Population
Stress
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Summary:Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the state of elderly copingwith stress. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted sixty years old and over 106individuals living at home within society. As data collection forms, a survey-formcontaining socio-demographic characteristics of all the individulas were recordedfeatures of elderly and a Scale of Stress-Coping Manners (SSCM) was used. Percentage, mean + standard deviation, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallismethods were used for assessment of the collected data. Results: The mean age of the study group was 68.0±5.5. 57.5% of the participantswere women, 52.8% had four and more than four children and 61.3% had a chronicillness. The scores of stress-coping manners of the elderly were high (73.86±8.18). The score averages of stress-coping of the women, the individuals who had threechildren and less, and the elderly who had no chronic illness were high and statisticallysignificant (p
ISSN:2459-1459