Elderly Mental Health Self-assessment Tools And Strategies Of Self-help

Objective: To develop suitable for the elderly and families to use the elderly mental health self-assessment tools, analysis and psychological health of the elderly the main factors affecting the psychological help for the elderly and providing strategic basis. Methods: Elderly psychology and sociology based on the theory, the preparation of the elderly mental health self-assessment tool to test the reliability and validity of (research), application self elderly mental health self-assessment tools, the elderly self-help mental health questionnaire , assessment, analysis Shanghai parts of the mental health of the elderly, influencing factors (study 2) and self-help situations. Results:â‘ Scale Development: factor analysis showed that consistent with the basic idea that good construct validity, Cronbach a coefficient of 0.8353, and to open more than half were 0.72 reliability, identify elderly mental health self-assessment tool for the 20 Title , five dimensions;â‘¡factors: the elderly age, region, income level, educational level, occupation, whether the children are with their mental health scores were significantly correlated between the different age, region, income level, career , and whether or not their children's psychological health of the elderly there are significant differences;â‘¢elderly since self-assessment status: 82.7% of the elderly pay close attention to our mental health, 33.3% of the elderly people there more than mild psychological problems, 93.3% of the elderly there is no to resolve the wishes of the general psychological problems.Conclusion:â‘ a majority of older persons to their mental health and to seek mental health information and resources, strong demand for self-help. A certain proportion of the elderly there are different levels of psychological problems, not paid enough attention to their mental health, psychological health, lack of knowledge, self-help disadvantaged;â‘¡living environment and economic, social and cultural atmosphere, the old-age social welfare conditions are affecting the elderly the psychological health of people an important factor;â‘¢elderly mental health self-assessment of the situation is urgently needed to help themselves, not only for their own potential for the development of the elderly, thus contributing to their psychological health of the upgrade, but also help alleviate the families and the elderly social burden for China's aging society's health, smooth over accomplish something;â‘£developed by the Institute of Mental Health elderly have higher self-evaluation tool validity of the letter, the reaction can be immediate mental health of the elderly, simple easy to operate.