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Family abandonment and depression in the elderly in a hospital in Ayacucho, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-01-14) Candela Anampa, Katty Evelyn; Benavente Sanchez, Yennys Katiusca
Research is important because mental health problems in older adults abandoned by their families affect family and social development. Objective: "To determine the relationship between family abandonment and depression in the elderly in the Ayacucho Hospital, 2023". Methodology: The study will use the hypothetical-deductive method, the approach will be quantitative and applied or theoretical, in addition to experimental and correlative design; the population will be made up of all the older adults who attend the Ayacucho Hospital, being a total of 486 patients, the sample will be obtained through probabilistic sampling, being a total of 214 older adults. The technique to be used will be the survey and as instruments the Geriatric Depression Scale of short version (EDG-12), consisting of 12 items, which was used in the Quispe study, for the second instrument the author used an instrument already used in Ramos’s study. For the first instrument was not necessary validity since it was an instrument used and already validated; on the contrary, for the second variable will be used binomial test or expert judges with the participation and evaluation of 5 experts in the subject. With regard to reliability in the first instrument will not be necessary as it was reliable and used in another study using the Cronbach Alpha Coefficient obtaining as a value 0.80, on the other hand, the questionnaire will be reliable through Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient.