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Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults

World Health Organization (WHO) have been identified older people as a vulnerable group that suffers from a range of different types of mental health problems particularly depression.Thus, providing caregiving for older people with depression has an impact on caregivers’ family life.This study sough...

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Main Author: Ahmad Ramli, Fatimah Zailly
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Language:English
Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI Publisher) 2013
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HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
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spelling my.uum.repo.173802016-02-29T00:04:32Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/17380/ Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults Ahmad Ramli, Fatimah Zailly HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare World Health Organization (WHO) have been identified older people as a vulnerable group that suffers from a range of different types of mental health problems particularly depression.Thus, providing caregiving for older people with depression has an impact on caregivers’ family life.This study sought to understand the Malay caregivers’ experiences of caregiving in the context of caring for older people with depression in Kelantan, Malaysia, as well as caregivers’ responses to them.In- depth interviews were conducted with eight Malay caregivers of older people with depression recruited from the outpatient psychiatric clinic.Data were digitally recorded and fully transcribed before being analyzed using thematic analysis.Participants reported that depression was particularly challenging, requiring a lot of attention and supervision because of the continuous distressed behaviour. American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI Publisher) 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/17380/1/ANAS%20405-412.pdf Ahmad Ramli, Fatimah Zailly (2013) Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults. Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, 7 (4 (S)). pp. 405-412. ISSN 1995-0772 http://www.aensiweb.com/old/anas_special_2013.html
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
spellingShingle HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Ahmad Ramli, Fatimah Zailly
Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults
description World Health Organization (WHO) have been identified older people as a vulnerable group that suffers from a range of different types of mental health problems particularly depression.Thus, providing caregiving for older people with depression has an impact on caregivers’ family life.This study sought to understand the Malay caregivers’ experiences of caregiving in the context of caring for older people with depression in Kelantan, Malaysia, as well as caregivers’ responses to them.In- depth interviews were conducted with eight Malay caregivers of older people with depression recruited from the outpatient psychiatric clinic.Data were digitally recorded and fully transcribed before being analyzed using thematic analysis.Participants reported that depression was particularly challenging, requiring a lot of attention and supervision because of the continuous distressed behaviour.
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author Ahmad Ramli, Fatimah Zailly
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title Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults
title_short Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults
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title_fullStr Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults
title_full_unstemmed Malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults
title_sort malay caregivers’ responses to depression among older adults
publisher American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI Publisher)
publishDate 2013
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/17380/1/ANAS%20405-412.pdf
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http://www.aensiweb.com/old/anas_special_2013.html
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