The Relationship between General Health and Cognitive Status in the Elderly of Hamadan in 2019
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Introduction
The phenomenon of aging is an inevitable part of the life of humans, demographers, aged 60 and older, are considered to be old age. As the medical science progresses, this population is rising, but the quality of life in this age has dropped to some extent and has always been a problem in Health is related and in our country, considering the process and population pyramid, planning for any services, we need to know the real needs of these people. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the frequency of health problems of the elderly in Hamadan city as a cross-sectional study. The year 1396-1397 was conducted.
Method
This is a cross-sectional study of 714 population aged 60-71 years old living in Hamedan. Data collection tools were General Health Questionnaire, Goldberg and Hiller (1979) (with subscales of physical symptoms, anxiety symptoms and sleep disturbance, social function and depression symptoms), and a brief examination of the psychological state of Folestin et al. (1975), which included (domains Cognitive, directional, memory recording, attention, calculation, memory, language, and ability to perform simple commands). Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22 using Chi-square test.
Results
The findings of this study showed that 509 elderly women (205.721) and 205 (721.272) were elderly men (21% of them were hospitalized in the last 1 year) with an average of 2 days. In terms of education, 399 participants did not have education and (34.1734) 244 movement education (2.941) had elementary education, (201.4) 30 had secondary education (1.550), 11 He had a diploma and (1/260) had 9 higher education degrees, of which 7 had resigned teachers. In the health questionnaire, the most common symptoms were physical symptoms (417/5403), sleep disturbance and anxiety symptoms (460 425/64), depression symptoms (367.44), and social function (498.93) (428) In the short examination of mental status, the highest percentages of memory and language disorders and the ability of orders (with 405,27226), cognitive domains (326/658), navigation (with 249/87) (249) In memory) with (291.291) and 209 (291.21) and 141 (747/198) were calculated. There was a significant relationship between sex with general health and a brief examination of mental status with a type of sub-scale (P <0.05).
Conclusion
Considering the high level of general health and mental health weakness, the findings of this study suggest that the use of psychosocial education in reducing physical symptoms is recommended.
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Persian
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Journal Of Gerontology, Volume:4 Issue: 1, 2019
Pages:
20 to 28
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