“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF DEPRESSION

AMONG ELDERLY RESIDING AT SELECTD OLD AGE

HOME NEAR HOSHIARPUR, PUNJAB.”

Thesis submitted for the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

Of
Baba Farid University of Health Sciences,
Faridkot, Punjab.
2018

Ms. Amritpal Kaur Parmar

Ms. Chandni
Ms. Gurbinder Kaur
Ms. Harpreet Kaur
Ms. Harpreet Kaur
Ms. Himani
Ms. Jaskaran
Ms. Harneet Kaur

RAYAT BAHRA COLLEGE OF NURSING BOHAN,

HOSHIARPUR.146104
“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF DEPRESION AMONG
ELDERLY RESIDING AT SELECTD OLD AGE HOME NEAR
HOSHIARPUR, PUNJAB.”

Thesis submitted for the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

Of
Baba Farid University of Health Sciences,
Faridkot, Punjab.
2018

Ms. Amritpal Kaur Parmar

Ms. Chandni
Ms. Gurbinder Kaur
Ms. Harpreet Kaur
Ms. Harpreet Kaur
Ms. Himani
Ms. Jaskaran
Ms. Harneet Kaur
SUPERVISOR
Mrs. Kanchan
Assistant Professor
Rayat Bahra College of Nursing,
Bohan, Hoshiarpur.

RAYAT BAHRA COLLEGE OF NURSING BOHAN,

HOSHIARPUR.146104
 CERTIFICATE OF SUPERVISOR

This is to certify that Ms. Amritpal Kaur Parmar, Ms. Chandni, Ms. Gurbinder,
Ms. Harpreet Kaur, Ms. Harpreet Kaur, Ms. Himani, Ms. Jaskaran, Ms. Harneet
Kaur has carried out study titled

“A study to assess the level of depression among elderly residing

at selected old age home district Hoshiarpur, Punjab” is original
work of above said persons conducted under our guidance and supervision.

Supervisor
Mrs. Kanchan
Assistant Professor
Rayat Bahra college of Nursing,
Bohan, Hoshiarpur.
Professor Ms. Meenakshi S. Chand
Ph.D., M.Sc. (N)
Principal cum professor
Rayat Bahra College of Nursing,
Bohan, Hoshiarpur,Punajb.
 Dedicated
To Almighty, God
Beloved Parents,
Teachers And Friends
 Acknowledgement

“In everything you do,

Put God first and He shall direct you and crown your efforts with success”

-Aurora Salamat Aliwate

First of all we grateful to ‘Almighty God’ for giving us necessary knowledge and ability in
accomplish our task without which the present form of the study would have not been in
existence.

The present study is the end product of team work. It is impossible to express in words my
indebtedness to all those who helped to give concrete shape to the study.

We extent our sincere thanks to Respected Ms. Meenakshi S. Chand, Principal cum Professor,
Rayat Bahra College of Nursing, Bohan, Hoshiarpur, for keen interest and helping nature always.
Being guided by her, has been a great privilege.

We express our sincere thanks to our esteemed guide, Mrs. Kanchan, Assistant Professor, at
Rayat Bahra College of Nursing, Bohan, Hoshiarpur for the guidance at each step, valuable time,
incisive comments and great personal interest taken in each part of this research project. We
deeply obliged by her untiring outstanding contribution in inculcating in the right approach. So
that we could perfect sentence of this thesis. Without her support this research project would not
have been given the perfect shape.

We are highly thankful to all the subjects who have participated in our study for their
cooperation and willingness to respond to our questionnaires without whose active participation
it would have been impossible to conduct the study.

We have immense pleasure in thanking Dr. Raj Kumar Psychiatrist at Civil Hospital
Hoshiarpur, for the validating the tools used for the study.

We have immense pleasure in thanking all teachers for content validity of tool. We would like to
bow our head in gratitude for our study subjects who peep through each word of our research
project.
We are also very thankful to staff of Home for Guru Nanak birdh, anath, apahij, netranheen
ashram, pashta road, Village-Sahni, Distt-Karputhala and for their co-operation and support for
the conduction of study.

We wish to thanks librarian Ms. Harpreet Kaur and computer laboratory and station of Rayat
Bahra College of Nursing Bohan, Hoshiarpur, for providing us the needful literature for
conducting the study successfully.

We also express thanks our English editor Mrs. Suman (M.A. English, B.ed.) for doing the
necessary editing of our thesis.

We are greatly indebted to our lovely parents and beloved ones for the inspiration and love all
through the ups and downs.

Above all we owe ourselves in the holy footsteps of “Waheguru” for his abundant blessings right
from the commencement till the completion of the study.

With Hearty Thanks

Ms. Amritpal Kaur Parmar

Ms. Chandni

Ms. Gurbinder Kaur

Ms. Harpreet Kaur

Ms. Harpreet Kaur

Ms. Himani

Ms. Jaskaran

Ms. Harneet Kaur

 ABSTRACT

Background of the study: -Studies conducted to assess the level of depression among
elderly people found that there was increases of number of elderly people with depressive
symptoms. The reasons behind the depression are loneliness, retirement, financial and
family disputes.

Objectives:-

1. To assess the prevalence of depression among elderly residing in an old age home.
2. To enumerate the socio demographic profile of the elderly in residing in old age home.

Methodology:-

A descriptive approach was used for study. Convenient sampling was done to obtain of 60
people. The Hamilton scale and ANOVA test was used to assess the prevalence of depression
among elderly people. Bar graph were used to depict the findings.

Findings:-

The finding of the present study revealed that there was severe depression among the elderly
people i.e. 51.7% and moderate depression was 38.3% and mild depression was 10.0%
among the elderly people.

Conclusion:-

The present study concluded that there was prevalence of severe depression among elderly
people in the area of district Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala, Punjab.

Keywords:-

Assess, prevalence, elderly people.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

SR.NO CHAPTER PAGE NO.

1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1-3
 Introduction
4-5
 Need for the study
5
 Statement of problem
6
 Objectives
6
 Operational definitions
6
 Assumptions
6
 Delimitations
2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE 7
 Review of literature related to old age 7-8

 Review of literature related to depression 8-10

10-13
 Review of literature related to depression among
old age

3. METHODOLOGY
14
 Introduction
14
 Research approach
14
 Research design
14
 Setting of study
14
 Target population
14
 Sample size
14-15
 Sampling technique 15
 Criteria for sample selection 15
 Selection and development of tool 15
 Description of tool 15
  Content validity of tool 15
 Ethical consideration 15-16

 Reliability of tool 16

 Pilot study 16

 Data collection procedure

 Plan of data analysis
4. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
19-20
 Sample characteristics
21-33
 Analysis and interpretation
34
 Major findings

5. DISCUSSION 35

6. SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND

RECOMMENDATIONS
36
 Summary
36
 Conclusion
3
 Recommendations

7. REFFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 38-41

8. LIST OF APPENDICES
 Letter seeking permission to conduct the research Appendix-I
study from principal.
Appendix-II
 Letter to expert for content validity of tool.
 Letter seeking permission to conduct the research
Appendix-III
from old age home.
Appendix-IV
 Certificate of language editor (English)
Appendix-V
 Certificate of language editor (Punjabi)
Appendix-VI
 Consent form
 Data collection tool (English) Appendix-VIII
 Data collection tool (Punjabi) Appendix-IX

 List of experts Appendix-X

Appendix-XI
 List of formulae used
 LIST OF TABLES

TABLE.NO TITLE PAGE.NO

1. Level of depression score. 16

2. Frequency and percentage distribution of socio- 19-20

demographic table among elderly people.

3. Association between selected socio-demographic 32

variables with the level of depression among
elderly people residing in old age home.

LIST OF FIGURES
FIG TITLE PAGE
No. No.
Fig.1. Schematic presentation of research design 18

Fig.2. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to age 21

Fig.3. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to 22

gender

Fig.4. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to 23

education

Fig.5. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to 24

religion

Fig.6. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to 25

marital status

Fig.7. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to type 26

of family

Fig.8. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to 27

occupation

Fig.9. Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to 28

perceived health status

Fig.10 Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to reason 29

. to join old age home

Fig.11 Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to 30

. duration of stay in old age home
CHAPTER-1
CHAPTER-2
 CHAPTER-3

METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER-4

Analysis and
Interpretation
CHAPTER-5

DISCUSSION
 CHAPTER-6

SUMMARY AND
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
APPENDICES