Hubungan Kesepian dengan Sindrom Lansia Lemah pada Lansia di UPT PSTW Jember

Abstract

Loneliness in elderly is a problem due to aging, which causes negative feelings about relationships with other people, anxiety, depression and affect hormone release associated with multidimensional frailty, which leads to the frail elderly syndrome. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between loneliness and frail elderly syndrome in elderly at UPT PSTW Jember. This study use crosssectional approach, conducted on 82 respondents using total sampling. A questionnaire to identify respondent characteristics, which included the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire and the Katz Index, UCLA Loneliness Scale Version 3 to identify loneliness, and Edmonton Frail Scale to identify frail elderly syndrome. Data were analyzed by Kendall's Tau b test. The results indicated that elderly at UPT PSTW Jember experienced significant differences in loneliness (pvalue<0.001), which most of the elderly experienced mild loneliness at 47.6%. The elderly at UPT PSTW Jember are known to have significant differences in loneliness frail elderly syndrome (p-value <0.001), which most of them experienced mild frailty at 45.1%. Based on the results of this study, there was a relationship between loneliness and frail elderly syndrome in elderly at UPT PSTW Jember (p-value <0.001), very strong and positive relationship was identified (r = 0.837). It can be concluded that there is a relationship between loneliness and frail elderly syndrome, higher loneliness score caused higher frail elderly syndrome score. Therefore, it is important for elderly and nursing home staff to reduce the loneliness of elderly to reduce the risk of frail elderly syndrome