Prevalence and associated factors of elder mistreatment: a cross sectional study from urban Nepal.
Background mistreatment of elderly people is internationally recognised as a serious public health issue. This study aimed at estimating the prevalence and risk factors associated with mistreatment in urban Nepal. Methods this was a descriptive cross-sectional study of 212 elderly people residing in...
| Published in: | Age & Ageing Vol. 45; no. 5; pp. 609 - 615 |
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Sep2016
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=118239238&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 118239238 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00020729 AGA jtl: Age & Ageing issn: 00020729 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2016 vid: 45 iid: 5 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 118239238 10.1093/ageing/afw112 ppf: 609 ppct: 6 formats: tig: atl: Prevalence and associated factors of elder mistreatment: a cross sectional study from urban Nepal. aug: au: NARAYAN YADAV, UDAY PAUDEL, GRISH affil: Forum for Health Research and Development, Research and Evaluation, Dharan, Kosi, Nepal Department of Public Health, Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal su: Nepal Abuse of older people Interviewing Socioeconomic factors Cross-sectional method Cluster analysis (Statistics) Confidence intervals Research methodology Statistical sampling Multiple regression analysis Independent living Data analysis software Descriptive statistics Odds ratio sug: subj: Abuse of older people Interviewing Socioeconomic factors Cross-sectional method Nepal Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling Cluster analysis (Statistics) Confidence intervals Research methodology Statistical sampling Multiple regression analysis Independent living Data analysis software Descriptive statistics Odds ratio keyword: elder mistreatment factors older people urban elder mistreatment factors older people urban ab: Background mistreatment of elderly people is internationally recognised as a serious public health issue. This study aimed at estimating the prevalence and risk factors associated with mistreatment in urban Nepal. Methods this was a descriptive cross-sectional study of 212 elderly people residing in Butwal sub-metropolitan city, an urban area in Nepal; the study was conducted between March and October 2015. Two-stage cluster design with simple random sampling was adopted for the study. Information was collected using an interviewer administered semi-structured questionnaire of older people. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with elder mistreatment. Results this study found a prevalence of 49.1% for mistreatment of the elderly population. Prevalence rates of caregiver neglect, financial, psychological or physical mistreatment and other types (including sexual assault) were 47.2%, 11.8%, 10.8%, 1.42% and 3.3%, respectively. Being a dalit (untouchable backward class in the traditional Hindu caste system), unemployed, widowed, divorced or separated, problems concentrating and smoking were independent factors associated with mistreatment. Smoking was found to be consistently associated with the three most common mistreatment types. Conclusions mistreatment of older people is common in urban Nepal, with neglect, financial and psychological abuse most common. Along with standard risk factors, specific ethnic issues (membership of dalit community) are associated with increased risk. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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