Table 3.
The Prevalence of MDs Among Elderly People Living in Nursing Homes and Those Living With Their Families According to Gender.
| Variable | Residence |
P valuea | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elderly people living in nursing
home (N = 181) |
Elderly people living with
family (N = 181) |
Total |
||||||
| Males n (%) |
Females n (%) |
N (%) | Males n (%) |
Females n (%) |
N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Any mental disorder | 61 (55.0) | 40 (57.1) | 101 (55.8) | 21 (19.1) | 18 (25.4) | 39 (21.5) | 140 (38.7) | <.001 |
| Depression | 36 (32.4) | 28 (40.0) | 64 (35.4) | 14 (12.7) | 16 (22.5) | 30 (16.6) | 94 (26.0) | <.001 |
| Anxiety | 37 (33.3) | 22 (31.4) | 59 (32.6) | 11 (10.0) | 7 (9.9) | 18 (9.9) | 77 (21.3) | <.001 |
| Dementia | 20 (18.0) | 15 (21.4) | 35 (19.3) | 3 (2.7) | 6 (8.5) | 9 (5.0) | 44 (12.2) | <.001 |
| Addiction | 2 (1.8) | 1 (1.4) | 3 (1.7) | 1 (0.9) | 1 (1.4) | 2 (1.1) | 5 (1.4) | .969 |
| Suicide thought | 27 (24.3) | 19 (27.1) | 46 (25.4) | 5 (4.5) | 3 (4.2) | 8 (4.4) | 54 (14.9) | <.001 |
a
P value refers to the differences between elderly people living in nursing home and elderly people living with family.