Analysis of Influence Factors on Revisits of Patients with Depression for Primary Care Basis in New Taipei City

• Main Authors: Lin, Yuhsiu, 林玉秀
• Other Authors: Hua, Huimin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9nx3ca

碩士 === 南開科技大學 === 福祉科技與服務管理所 === 101 === Depression in Taiwan elderly population reached 290,000 in 2011. Treatment for elderly depression has become an important clinical issue. Meanwhile, family traced is an important part in the treatment. Diagnosis records of 52,806 outpatients from a primary care clinic in New Taipei City from December 1996 to December 2012 were collected. A relational database was designed to collate, maintain and analyze the records, and SPSS18.0 was adapted to analyze relation and differences between depressive patients’ routine treatments and gender, age, with family traced or not, with psychiatric comorbidities or other chronic diseases or not. Patients were divided into three groups: born before 1946, between 1946 and 1964, and after 1964. By Pearson correlation coefficient analysis and multivariate logistic regression analysis, "with family traced or not" (r=.093**, p=.017) and "with psychiatric comorbidities or chronic diseases or not" (r=.156**, p=.000) were confirmed to relate to treatment types. Family traced was in favor of treatment for depression; depressive patients with family traced would have greater odds ratio than without. So family traced could be factors to influence depressive patients to complete treatment and be provided to primary care staff to take suitable action in order to help depressive outpatients complete treatment for depression.