The Relationship Between Ritual Activities and Tendency to Depression in Elderly
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.226How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- ritual activities, tendency, depression, elderly
- Abstract
Depression is a common problem in elderly and recognized as a life-threatening mental health problem in Indonesia. The initial study at Gelangan Village, Magelang city exposed the depression is currently being a concern in elderly population. Even though a number of depression studies were undertaken, however, a relevant and promising study that conducted in Gelangan Village has received little attention from the nurse researcher particularly in scrutinizing the religious aspect of depression. Thus, the study was initiated to figure out the relationship between ritual activities and tendency to depression in elderly. The study aimed at examining the relationship between ritual activities and the tendency to depression in elderly at “Posyandu Lansia Ngudi Rahayu” in Gelangan Village, Magelang City. Correlational design that combined with the cross-sectional method was thoughtfully chosen to answer the research question of the study. During April 2019 to May 2019, a total of 40 respondents were involved. In this study, two variables were selected as follows ritual activities (variable one) and tendency to depression (variable two). The Spearman’s rank correlation was taken into consideration to measures the strength and direction of the relationship between variables. The significance level was considered at 0.05 for hypothesis testing. The finding of the study showed that the relationship between ritual activities and tendency to depression is statistically significant (p < 0.05). Moreover, the level of correlation is fair as expected by the researcher (-0.448). The negative correlation was also obtained that is to say when the variable one increases, the other decreases. The relationship between ritual activities and tendency to depression is statistically significant (p < 0.05). Ritual activities seems to be an appropriate treatment which can be integrated into clinical workflow management of depression care in elderly.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Diah Septiani AU - Sambodo Sriadi Pinilih AU - Retna Tri Astuti PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/04 TI - The Relationship Between Ritual Activities and Tendency to Depression in Elderly BT - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1083 EP - 1086 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.226 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.226 ID - Septiani2020 ER -