중년기 여성의 건강문제 실태조사

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of pain and the types of pain of middle-aged women, and to identify the complains of physical, emotional, psychosocial health problems by age. This study's subjects included 610 women in Taegu City whose age were between 40 and 59 years old. The instrument used in this study was the Beck Depression Inventory(BDI), developed by Beck(l978) and translated into Korean by Lee(l981), and the Ego Identity Scale developed by Suh(l975) and modified by Nam(1975). The data were analysed by using SAS program which included Frequency, Percentage, x- test, ANOVA, Tukey test, Pearson correlation and Spearman correlation. The conclusion obtained from this study were as follows: There were significant differences of experience of pain by age. Types of pain were: the general pain and the abdominal pain which were dominant between 40 and 46 years old, the back. pain between 47 and 53, the general pain and the arthritis between 54 and 59. And the level of the depression of all three groups were higher than the normal score so there was a significant difference by age(p=0.0031 ). There were significant differences in the supports of spouse(p=0.003) and the ego identity(p=0.0445) by age. Pain experience were positive correlation with depression whose age were between 47 and 53 years old(r=0.224, p=0.0315). Therefore, the pain experienced group had a more depression than the non-experienced.