Demssew, Tigist (2015) Assessment of Psychosocial Well Being and Meaning of Life among the Elderly in the Elders’ Home Setting at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2015. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Most elders in elders‟ home setting are suffering from lack of meaning in life all over 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 using both qualitative and quantitative methods starting from April to May, 2015. Systematic sampling method was used to select the 330study participants. The quantitative study was assessed using Meaning-in-life test measurement scale and Multidimensional well-being measurement scale. The qualitative study was assessed using in-depth interview and focus group discussion. Data entering, coding and clearing was performed using Epinfo window version 3.5 and the analysis was done using SPSS window version 20 for quantitative data manual thematic analysis was done for the qualitative study. Result: A total of 330 study participants were included in this study with response rate of 100%.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 of psychosocial wellbeing is 1.0485 with SD of 0.25399 [female scored (1.0640, SD 0.30438) and males scored (1.0390, SD 0.21792)]. Majority of participants 306(92.7) reported lack of clear purpose and low meaning in life, 16(4.8%) reported moderate meaning in life and only (2.4%) of elders reported high meaning in life. Family relationship, religion, activities and staff relationship have great impact in psychosocial wellbeing and meaning in life of elders. Elder home found to have association with meaning in life and Psychosocial well-being. Psychosocial wellbeing and meaning 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 most Elders. Elders‟ home have significance association with meaning in life and psychosocial wellbeing life. Therefore, Management personnel who manage the elders‟ home and staff members‟ needs to improve the living environment and arrangement as the whole contributing to improvements in elders‟ living environments.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | psychosocial needs, psychosocial well-being and meaning in life |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2018 09:01 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2018 09:01 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8280 |
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