摘要
目的:探讨空巢老人日常生活中的真实感受,以便帮助并指导空巢老人促进心理健康,提高生活质量。方法:采用定性研究方法,以半结构式的开放性访谈问卷对21位城市社区空巢老人进行个体化的深入访谈,使用定性资料的内容分析法进行资料分析。结果:在情感方面,有些空巢老人表现出适应、自立、充实、乐观、知足的正性情绪,有些老人表现出被遗忘感、失落感、烦闷感、孤独感、无助感、无望感、压抑感、拖累感等负性情绪,空巢老人的情绪与幸福感密切相关,多方面原因相互作用影响老人的内心感受。结论:空巢老人的情绪复杂多样,针对其产生的原因,老人家属及社区人员应引起重视,采取积极措施减少负性情绪的发生。
Objective： To explore the lived experiences and feelings of empty nest elders in the daily life, in order to promote their mental health and quality of life. Methods： This study adopted the qualitative research design with face-to-face in-depth interview individually to collect data. A semi-structured interview guide was carried out with a convenience sample of 21 empty nest elders in urban community in Beijing. A qualitative content analysis was used to identify themes within the data. Results： The findings indicated that some empty nest elders expressed the positive emotions, including adaptation, self-reliance, full, optimism, and satisfaction. Some elders expressed the negative emotions, including being forgotten, a sense of loss, boring, loneliness, helplessness, hopelessness, depression, a sense of drag and so on. The feelings of empty nest elders were closely related to the emotional well-being and influenced by many interactional factors. Conclusions： The emotions of empty nest elders and the reasons were complex. The families of elders and community workers should pay more attention to them and offer effective interventions to reduce their negative emotions.
出处
《中国护理管理》
2009年第1期31-34,共4页
Chinese Nursing Management
基金
2007年度北京市留学人员科技活动择优资助项目
关键词
空巢老人
情绪
心理健康
主观幸福感
empty nest elders
emotion
mental health
subjective well-being
