TY - JOUR AU - คงสังข์, วรรณิภา AU - กาญจนสำราญวงศ์, ปรีดาภรณ์ PY - 2017/06/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Study on Depression of Elderly in Langsuan District, Chumphon Province JF - RMUTI Journal Humanities and Social Sciences JA - RMUTT J Hum Soc Sci VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - UR - https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/RMUTI_SS/article/view/189633 SP - 77-91 AB - <p>The objective of this research was to study and compare the depression disorder of the elderly in Langsuan District, Chumphon Province. The variables were classified into 4 categories. They were personality traits, economic, psychosocial aspects and biological aspects. An interview questionnaire set was used as a tool to collect data. For the samples of this research were 290 people who were of age 60 or over and also live in Langsuan District. The samples were obtained from the method of two-stage random sampling. The statistics that was used to analyze data consisted of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, f-test, welch test, pair comparison by Scheffe’s method and Dunnett’s T3 The result indicated that most of the elderly samples had no depression disorder status at 92.76 percent and variables in those 4 categories that could carry out depression disorder in elderly differently was significant at 0.05.</p> ER -