Prevalence and Associated Factors of Stress among Elderly People in Macedonia Charity Association in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2021
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This research determines the prevalence and associated factors of stress among elderly people in
Macedonia Charity Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It also determined the prevalence and
assesses associated factors. Literatures on prevalence and associated factors were discussed
wisely in relation to the research objectives. The research was carried out using quantitative
research design. Thus, 348 structured questionnaires were distributed and 211 were collected
from Macedonia Charity Association elderly people with 60.6% response rate. Purposive
sampling technique was used to select the charity association and elderly peoples, since more
elders are found there together. The overall finding of the study shows that 59.7% of the elderly
people experienced moderate stress and 4.3% of the others experienced high level of stress. The
research can conclude that elders above 65 years of age have impression for the prevalence of
stress: elderly people who have health problems have more vulnerable to stress than elderly
people who don’t have health problems. Political unrest of Ethiopia stressed 81% of the elders
and alarming increment of the goods and items stressed 71.6% of the others. 79.6% of the elders
claimed that the increased population of the country, Ethiopia increased their stress level and
78.7% of the elders have Musclo-skeleton problems in Macedonia Charity Association. Based on
the findings, the charity association center should employee professional counselor to provide
proper professional support for those elderly people. The government, NGOs and concerned
authorities should build effective and efficient hospitals for older people and should encourage
mass sport with a physician. The government ought to give immediate solutions for political
unrest of Ethiopia.
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Associated factors of stress, Elderly people, Prevalence of stress, Stress,