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 Volume 9, Issue 9 (September 2022), Pages: 105-111

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 Original Research Paper

Factors affecting depression of participants in senior employment: Focusing on the actual status of senior employment projects and social activity support projects

 Author(s): Hee Young Woo, Sun-Jung Park *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Nursing, Sahmyook Health University, Seoul, South Korea

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-5436

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.09.013

 Abstract:

This study aims to relate subjective health and medical expenditure with depression and to secure basic data for a program to manage depression of participants in senior employment based on the surveyed relationship. This study is descriptive research to identify subjective health, medical expenditure, and depression and to examine factors of subjective health, and medical expenditure on depression of participants in senior employment. To this end, 472 people of 60 years or more participated in this study. The household data and household member data were combined based on the data for the 14th year of 2019 and the 15th year of 2020 of the Korea Welfare Panel Study. As a result of this study, participants in senior employment were depressed slightly higher than average. In general features, depression was statistically related to age, presence of partners, and residential type, Furthermore, subjective health was correlated with depression. Factors affecting depression were statistically related to subjective health status and the presence of spouses. From identifying factors affecting depression of participants in senior employment, it is necessary to develop a program to manage depression of participants in senior employment and to explore plans for welfare policy for seniors.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Participants in the senior employment, Subjective health, Medical expenditure, Depression

 Article History: Received 10 March 2022, Received in revised form 22 May 2022, Accepted 14 June 2022

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Woo HY and Park SJ (2022). Factors affecting depression of participants in senior employment: Focusing on the actual status of senior employment projects and social activity support projects. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(9): 105-111

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