HUBUNGAN DUKUNGAN SOSIAL DENGAN DEPRESI PADA LANSIA DI DUSUN SONGO DESA SONGOWARENG KECAMATAN BLULUK KABUPATEN LAMONGAN

Abstract

Elderly in indonesia is increasing, so the elderly with a variety of changes both biologically, socially, culturally, economically, health, and psychologically into a group that ranges from various mental and behavioral problems, namely depression. Social support can influence the incidence of depression in the elderly. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between social support and depression in the elderly in Songo Village, Songowareng Village, Bluluk District, Lamongan Regency. Desaint analytic correlation research with cross sectional approach. The population of all elderly in Songo Hamlet Songowareng Village, Bluluk Subdistrict, Lamongan Regency was 40 elderly people aged 60-74 and then a sample of 36 people was obtained by simple random sampling. The independent variable is social support and the dependent variable is depression in the elderly, the data is taken using a questionnaire, after the data is collected then the data is processed and then continued with the statistical test of Sperman’s Rho Test with SPSS version 17.0. The results obtained p = 0.830 > (0.05) so that H0 is accepted, which means there is no significant relationship between social support and depression in the elderly in Songo Village, Songowareng Village, Bluluk District, Lamongan Regency. The results of this study indicate that depression in the elderly is not influenced by social support alone, there are many factors that affect depression in the elderly, including staying at home alone because they do not have offspring, prolonged sadness, poverty, frequent solitude and rarely socializing with the surrounding environment.