Prevalence and correlates of anxiety and depression among chronically ill older adults in Zunyi, China: a cross-sectional study

作者：Xiaoling Zhao, Xiaoli Yuan, Dan Meng, Heting Liang, Yan Xiong, Yunting Li, Shuang Li, Mei He, Pan Cai · 发表于：Frontiers in Psychology · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1560650 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Chronic Disease Management Strategies、Health and Well-being Studies、Health disparities and outcomes

Background Against the background of an aging population, the prevalence of mental health problems among elderly people with chronic diseases is steadily increasing. The prevalence of mental health problems is higher in less economically developed regions, but there are still limited reports on the mental health data of elderly people with chronic diseases in less developed western regions. Objective To find out the prevalence of anxiety and depression among chronically ill elderly people in Zunyi, China, and to analyze the risk factors for the prevalence of anxiety and depression. Methods A stratified randomized whole-cluster sampling method with face-to-face questionnaires was used to survey people aged 60 years and older with chronic diseases in Zunyi, China, from March 2022 to October 2023. Relevant demographic and clinical data were collected using structured questionnaire contents of sociodemographic characteristics, Self-Assessment Scale for Anxiety (SAS), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), Brief Miniature Nutritional Assessment Scale (MNA-SF), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Barthel Index (BI), etc., and bivariate analyses were carried out to explore the anxiety according to the different characteristics of the subjects Bivariate analyses were conducted to explore the differences in anxiety and depression according to the different characteristics of the subjects, and multifactorial logistic regression analyses were conducted to test the factors affecting anx...