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Suicidal Ideation of the Elderly According to Their Involvement in Grandchild Care

The purpose of the present study was to examine the severity of suicidal ideation of the older adults according to the amount of involvement in grandchild care. Data for this research were drawn from a cross-sectional study conducted on community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older. The 922 parti...

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Autores principales: Lee, Jeewon, Lee, Areum, Lee, Doeun, Jung, Han-Young, Kim, Shin-gyeom, Lee, Soyoung Irene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31446688
http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.06.06
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author Lee, Jeewon
Lee, Areum
Lee, Doeun
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description The purpose of the present study was to examine the severity of suicidal ideation of the older adults according to the amount of involvement in grandchild care. Data for this research were drawn from a cross-sectional study conducted on community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older. The 922 participants were divided into three groups according to their involvement in grandchild care: 18.5% had provided daily care, 12.4% had provided occasional care, and 69.1% had never cared for their grandchildren. ANCOVA analysis showed that the scores for depression was significantly lower in the group which took care of their grandchildren occasionally compared to the other two groups. The scores for suicidal ideation was significantly higher in the group which had never taken care of their grandchildren compared to the other two groups. Current study suggests that grandparenting may have a positive effect on suicidal ideation of the older adults.
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spelling pubmed-67104222019-09-03 Suicidal Ideation of the Elderly According to Their Involvement in Grandchild Care Lee, Jeewon Lee, Areum Lee, Doeun Jung, Han-Young Kim, Shin-gyeom Lee, Soyoung Irene Psychiatry Investig Brief Report The purpose of the present study was to examine the severity of suicidal ideation of the older adults according to the amount of involvement in grandchild care. Data for this research were drawn from a cross-sectional study conducted on community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older. The 922 participants were divided into three groups according to their involvement in grandchild care: 18.5% had provided daily care, 12.4% had provided occasional care, and 69.1% had never cared for their grandchildren. ANCOVA analysis showed that the scores for depression was significantly lower in the group which took care of their grandchildren occasionally compared to the other two groups. The scores for suicidal ideation was significantly higher in the group which had never taken care of their grandchildren compared to the other two groups. Current study suggests that grandparenting may have a positive effect on suicidal ideation of the older adults. Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2019-08 2019-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6710422/ /pubmed/31446688 http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.06.06 Text en Copyright © 2019 Korean Neuropsychiatric Association This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31446688
http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.06.06
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