Elder Abuse in Savojbolagh - IRAN Download PDF

Background and Objective: Elderly age as a sensitive age is the last part of human evolution trend that might be along with numerous physical and psychological problems. One of these problems is experiencing types of abuses that put mental health and quality of life of them at risk. Materials and Method: The methodology of this study is cross sectional-descriptive. Statistical population consisted of all older people more than age of 65 in Savojbolagh, Iran covering by urban and rural healthcare centers of Savojbolagh. Convenience method was applied as sampling method in which, 400 members were chosen from elder people that they were referred to urban and rural healthcare centers. Sample members filled out elder abuse inventory. The data were analyzed through SPSS22 software. Findings: The results showed that 80.60% of elders people were victims of types of abuses (0.01); of that, 62.12% experienced neglect, 41.2% emotional abuse, 11.81% physical abuse, 13.73% religious abuse, 4.52% financial abuse, and 1.44% experienced sexual abuse. Also female elders experienced more total kinds of abuse especial neglect 89.12% emotional abuse 68.22%, physical21.02%, and religious abuse23.52%. The most prevalent abuses among male older people were related to neglect (0.58), emotional abuse (0.59), and financial abuse (0.97). Also, patient (0.46), without income (0.78), with poor economic status (0.72), widow (0.33), divorced (0.3), illiterate (0.87), and with low literacy (0.84) older people were most subjected to abuse. Conclusion: Elder abuse has a considerable prevalence in Savojbolagh so that in this research, neglect (62.5%) and emotional abuse (41.2%) had the highest prevalence and sexual abuse (0.41%) had the lowest prevalence in Savojbolagh.