Abstract
The present study was undertaken to map the ground trends of depression and suicidal ideation among elderly Kashmiris in association with connected socio-demographic variables and also to find the relationship of depression with suicidal ideation. The sample consisted of 184 older adults (102 elderly males & 82 elderly females) taken from different districts of Kashmir. The age of the sample group ranged from 58-76 years with mean age of 67 years. Purposive sampling technique was used for research purpose. Aaron Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI-II 1996) and Beck & Steer’s Suicide Ideation scale (BSSI 1991) was used. T-test was used to test the significance of difference in depression and suicidal ideation between various groups and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to determine the relationship between depression and suicidal ideation. The findings of the present study revealed that there is no significant mean difference in the depression level of older adults with respect to various socio-demographic variables. Further, the findings of the present study reveal that there is significant mean difference in the suicidal ideation of educated and uneducated elderly as is true for rural and urban older adults. However, no significant mean difference was found in suicidal ideation of male & female older adults and also no significant mean difference was found in the suicidal ideation of those elderly whose spouse are alive and those who are widowed. Results further reveal that depression has significant positive correlation with suicidal ideation indicating that depression acts as risk factor for suicidal ideation.
Highlights
The present study was undertaken to map the ground trends of depression and suicidal ideation among elderly Kashmiris in association with connected socio-demographic variables and to find the relationship of depression with suicidal ideation
The perusal of data fromTable-1 reveals that 22.83% of older adults have mild level of depression, 23.37% have moderate level of depression and 53.80% have high level of depression
It reveals that 35.33% of older adults have mild level of suicidal ideation, 60.87% have moderate level of suicidal ideation and 3.80% have high level of suicidal ideation
Summary
The present study was undertaken to map the ground trends of depression and suicidal ideation among elderly Kashmiris in association with connected socio-demographic variables and to find the relationship of depression with suicidal ideation. The findings of the present study revealed that there is no significant mean difference in the depression level of older adults with respect to various sociodemographic variables. The findings of the present study reveal that there is significant mean difference in the suicidal ideation of educated and uneducated elderly as is true for rural and urban older adults. As health care facilities improve in countries, the proportion of the elderly in the population and the life expectancy after birth increase . Suicidal patients were assumed to share the frequent occurrence of depressed patient’s negative thinking, compounded by logical errors, and a tendency for longterm belief structures to be activated by current depression Beck with his colleagues (1975; 1990) showed in their research that there is a strong relationship between life stress and suicidal behaviour. When depressed patients believe that there is no solution to their problems, they consider suicide as a way out of an intolerable and hopeless situation
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