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Psychological and Physical Problems in Elderly People with Problems of Falls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Mentis ,
M. Gouva ,
E. Antoniadou ,
K. Mpourdoulis ,
I. Kesoudidou ,
C. Marneras  and
E. Panagiotopoulos
M. Mentis
Affiliation:
University of Patras, Rehabilitation Clinic Spinal Cord Injury, “Demetrios and Vera Sfikas”, Patras, Greece
M. Gouva
Affiliation:
Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Research Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals, Ioannina, Greece
E. Antoniadou
Affiliation:
University of Patras, Rehabilitation Clinic Spinal Cord Injury, “Demetrios and Vera Sfikas”, Patras, Greece
K. Mpourdoulis
Affiliation:
University of Patras, Rehabilitation Clinic Spinal Cord Injury, “Demetrios and Vera Sfikas”, Patras, Greece
I. Kesoudidou
Affiliation:
University of Patras, Rehabilitation Clinic Spinal Cord Injury, “Demetrios and Vera Sfikas”, Patras, Greece
C. Marneras
Affiliation:
University of Patras, Rehabilitation Clinic Spinal Cord Injury, “Demetrios and Vera Sfikas”, Patras, Greece
E. Panagiotopoulos
Affiliation:
University of Patras, Rehabilitation Clinic Spinal Cord Injury, “Demetrios and Vera Sfikas”, Patras, Greece

Abstract

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Introduction

Falls of the elderly to a degree been associated with poor mental health, poor social support and poor physical health.

Objectives

To investigate the falls of elderly people in relation to their mental and physical healthy.

Aims

To compare the effects of falls in the elderly in the areas of mental and physical health.

Methods

The current study used purposive sampling compromised from 48 people that visited the emergency department at the Patras University Hospital in 2016. The inclusion criterion for participation was age (> 65 years). Data was collected using WHO's questionnaire, the WHOQUOL-BREF. Finally, data was analyzed using the test t test for independent samples.

Results

The sample constituted by 39.6% of male and 61.4% of female. The average age of the sample was M = 75.89 years. In relation to mental health, the average of the elderly with a history of falls found M = 57.26 (SD = ± 22.87), while the other was found M = 74.45 (SD = ± 15.81). The difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05), while physical health although again the first group found to have a smaller average (M = 56.65, SD = ± 22.13) relative to the second group (M = 63.78, SD = ± 12.59) no statistical difference was observed.

Discussions

These results demonstrates that falls beyond the physical damage that are immediately visible can as well create significant issues in the psychological state of the elderly exacerbating anxiety, fear and social isolation, which has been associated with depression event.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Old age psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S659 - S660
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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