Investigation on incidence of geriatric depression in rural community of Anhui province

  Objective   To understand the incidence of geriatric depression and explore the risk factors of geriatric depressions in rural community of Anhui countries.

  Methods   1236 non-depressed elderly of the study on rhe prevalence of depression among the elderly was followed up with one-yearinterval by using the Geriatric Mental State Schedule(GMSA GECAT)and Minimum Data Set(MDS).The data were analysis and by SPSS.

  Results   The incidence of depression among the elderly was 7.2%.χ² analysis and Multinomial Logistic Regression analysis showed that there was sig nificantly difference between the male and female(P < 0.05), but the incidence of geriatric depression between different age, marital status, job and education degrees didn't have significant difference.Gender was risk factor of geriatric depression in the rural community(P < 0.05, (RR: 1.68, 95% CI 1.07~2.64).

  Conclusion   The incidence of geriatric depression is higher than what is expected.Female elderly is the high-risk population of geratric epression in the rural community and when interventions are maken, they should be focusd on.