Assessment of Psychosocial well Being and Meaning of Life Among The Elderly in the Elders’ Home Setting at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2015
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2015-06
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Demssew Tigist
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Most elders in elders‟ home setting are suffering from lack of meaning in life allover the world. A study done showed it 43.6% of elder in elders home have low meaning in life.
Objectives: To Assess Psycho-social wellbeing and meaning-in life among elders in elders‟home setting, Addis Ababa, June 2015
Methods: The study was employed an institution based cross-sectional study design by usingboth qualitative and quantitative methods starting from April to May, 2015. Systematic samplingmethod was used to select the 330study participants. The quantitative study was assessed usingMeaning-in-life test measurement scale and Multidimensional well-being measurement scale.The qualitative study was assessed using in-depth interview and focus group discussion. Dataentering, coding and clearing was performed using Epinfo window version 3.5 and the analysiswas done using SPSS window version 20 for quantitative data manual thematic analysis wasdone for the qualitative study.
Result: A total of 330 study participants were included in this study with response rate of100%.Majority of the study participants317 (96.1%) reported bad psychosocial wellbeing,10(3.0%) reported wellbeing and 3(0.9%) reported high wellbeing. The mean score ofpsychosocial wellbeing is 1.0485 with SD of 0.25399 [female scored (1.0640, SD 0.30438) andmales scored (1.0390, SD 0.21792)]. Majority of participants 306(92.7) reported lack of clearpurpose and low meaning in life, 16(4.8%) reported moderate meaning in life and only (2.4%) ofelders reported high meaning in life. Family relationship, religion, activities and staff relationshiphave great impact in psychosocial wellbeing and meaning in life of elders. Elder home found tohave association with meaning in life and Psychosocial well-being. Psychosocial wellbeing andmeaning in life have significance association (AOR=0.014, CI 0.003, 0.056).
Conclusion and recommendation: The state of psychosocial and meaning-in life is bad in mostElders. Elders‟ home have significance association with meaning in life and psychosocialwellbeing life. Therefore, Management personnel who manage the elders‟ home and staffmembers‟ needs to improve the living environment and arrangement as the whole contributing toimprovements in elders‟ living environments.
Key words:psychosocial needs, psychosocialIXwell-being and meaninginlife.
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psychosocial needs Psychosocial IX well-being and meaning in life