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Diferences Between Depression In Elderly Man And Woman In Elderly Village IHC
Gedonombo Semanding Tuban District in 2013
By : Cut Nita Mulya

Depression is disorder experienced by many elderly, which is caused by age,

education, occupation, matrial status activities. From the initial survey 1 severly depressed
elderly woman, 5 man being depressed elderly woman and two elderly woman experience
mild depression, while 5 were elderly man experience depression and two elderly man
experience mild depression. Therefore, researchers aimed to determine differences in
depression among elderly man and elderly woman in the village Gedognombo IHC
Semanding Tuban district.
The study design was a comparative analytical study design with observational, crosssectional time approach with a population of elderly, so we get great sampel 51 seniors.
Sempel retrieval techniques using simple random sampling and data collection using a
questionnaire, while the statistic test used were man whitney with significance level = 0.05.
Based on the results of the study in elderly men get that respondents over most mild
depression by 14 respondents (56.0%), and respondets were mostly elderly women were
depressed by 21 respondents (80.8%), with sig = 0.000 meaning that there is a difference
between depression in elderly man and woman in IHC Ederly Village Gedongombo
Semanding Tuban District.
From the desciption above it can be concluteded that depression can be differentiated
by sex between older man and woman. And elderly expected positive thingking and more
active in acitivities in elderly neighborhood health center in order to avoid depression.

Keywords : Depression, ElderlySex