Arai Y, Miura H, Washio M, Kudo K
Research Unit for Nursing, Caring Sciences, & Psychology, NILS, Sendai, Japan.
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1998 Aug;52(4):463-5. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.00418.x.
Twenty-four community residing elderly people in need of care, who were registered with the municipal welfare center in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and their principal caregivers participated in the study. The principal caregivers completed a self-administered questionnaire involving their demographic status, provided data on their utilization of formal services and completed the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). The health visitors examined the activities of daily living (ADL) and mental status of these 24 elderly individuals. More than half the caregivers appeared to be depressed. The non-depressed caregivers used significantly more services than the depressed caregivers even after the caregivers' age was statistically controlled.
24名居住在社区且需要护理的老年人及其主要照顾者参与了这项研究，这些老年人在日本宫城县市立福利中心登记在册。主要照顾者完成了一份关于其人口统计学状况的自填问卷，提供了他们使用正规服务的数据，并完成了流行病学研究中心抑郁量表（CES-D）。健康访视员检查了这24名老年人的日常生活活动（ADL）和精神状态。超过半数的照顾者似乎患有抑郁症。即使在对照顾者的年龄进行统计学控制之后，未患抑郁症的照顾者使用的服务也明显多于患抑郁症的照顾者。
