Psychosocial problems affecting the elderly

Psychosocial Problems During the COVID-19 Epidemic Crisis

Men's health and psychosocial issues affecting men.

Contemporary scholars are calling on men to rethink "the male deal." As Samuels describes it, "In the male deal, the little boy, at around the age of 3 or 4. strikes a bargain with the social world in which he lives. If he will turn away from soft things, feminine things, maternal things...then the world will reward his gender certainty by giving him all the goodies in its possession." But the ...

Personality and Psychosocial Factors Affecting Premenstrual Syndrome

Introduction: Physical and psychological symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affect some women experiencing regular menstrual cycles. Symptoms include irritability, depression, anxiety, headache, and breast tenderness/soreness and are presumed to be significantly higher in the late luteal phase than in the follicular phase. Aim of the Study: Is to highlight the personality traits in a sampl...

Factors Affecting Hypertension among the Malaysian Elderly

Hypertension is a common chronic disease in the elderly. This study aimed to determine the effects of age, ethnicity, gender, education, marital status, nutritional parameters, and blood elements on the risk of high blood pressure in the Malaysian elderly. This research was conducted on a group of 2322 non-institutionalized Malaysian elderly. The hierarchy binary logistic regression analysis wa...

Factors Affecting the Elderly Self-Perceived Health Status

Objectives: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the elderly cognition of functional limitation, activity limitation, mental disorder and social and demographic characteristics (socioeconomic status, education, working status, sex and age) and their impacts on their self-perceived health status. Also to fit the health status data with Johnson and Wolinsky's model and offering a prop...