Domestic Abuse and Its Relation to Quality Of Life among Elderly People at Mania City
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: Domestic violence against elders remain a hidden, growing and ignored problem with significant impact on elder's’ health and wellbeing. Aim: To investigate domestic abuse and its relation to quality of life among elderly people. Design: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was carried out in this study. Sample and setting: A convenience sample of 250 elderly people attending geriatric club of the Red Crescent Society and Abd-Elrahman Geriatric club of the ministry of social solidarity at Minia city. Tool: A structured interview questionnaire sheet included socio-demographic and medical data, patterns of domestic abuse experienced by elderly people and World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief questionnaire for older people (WHOQOL). Results: More than two thirds (68%) were being mistreated (exposed to at least one type of domestic abuse), the most pattern of domestic abuse experienced by them was neglect (62%), followed by psychological abuse (58%). The most perpetrators were children followed by family members with percentages of 68.0 and 63.6% respectively). There was the highly statistically significant difference between the mean and standard deviation of total patterns of domestic abuse and levels of quality of life. Furthermore there a highly statistically significant difference between (age, education, location, living condition, and pension) and total patterns of domestic abuse. Conclusion & Recommendations: Highly percentage of elderly people experience at least one type of domestic abuse especially neglect and psychological abuse, associated with a significant negative impact on all dimension of quality of their life reflecting an urgent need for public education especially for adolescents (children) and care givers who are the most perpetrators and programmatic interventions.
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Rokaia Fathi Mohammed
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