Diferencias en el sentimiento de soledad entre adultos institucionalizados y no institucionalizados.

Quintero-Echeverri, Ángela; Villamil-Gallego, María Mercedes; Henao-Villa, Eucaris; Cardona-Jiménez, Jairo León

Objective: to compare the levels of loneliness between the institutionalized adult population and the non-institutionalized. Methodology: Exploratory, cross-sectional research. The ESTE scale was applied to measure loneliness in two groups; a group of non-institutionalized adults, consisting of 869 over 55 years of age attending the groups of the elderly in the different districts of Medellin, by means of a random sampling by conglomerates; as well as the group of institutionalized adults constituted by adults aged 55 and over who reside in gerontological centers of the city, who were taken from a list provided by the municipal administration; both, linked to the municipality as private, for a total of 379 adults. Were taken Sociodemographic variables: Gender, marital status, education and age. Statistical tests for continuous dependent variables, given the non-normal distribution of results, were used: U de Mann-Whitney y Kruskal-Wallis, with a 0.05 significance. Results: Institutionalized adults are more familiar, social and marital loneliness, the crisis of adaptation is similar in the two groups. In no institutionalized adult's variables marital status, education and age appear significantly associated with the level of loneliness, while institutionalized only given to marital status. Conclusions: The feeling of loneliness is greater in institutionalized adults; the marital status variable was associated with loneliness in both groups.

Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 2, p83

0120-386X

Academic Journal

10.17533/udea.rfnsp.v36n2a07