A study to assess stress related problems among Geriatric Men and Women in a selected rural area in Hassan district

The present study has been undertaken to assess stress-related problems among geriatric men and women in a rural area in Hassan district. The tool for the study was structured questionnaire which consists of two parts-PARTI consisted questions related to Socio-demographic data, PART-II consisted of structured questionnaire to assess the stress-related problems among geriatric men and women. The data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The most significant finding was that 100% of women and 86.6% of men in the study belongs to the age group between 64 and 73 years. Majority of the subjects belongs to joint family 63.3% of men and 80% of women whereas 86.7% of women and 96.7% of men were married. In fact, 43.3% of women and 23.4% of men were having mild to moderate levels of anxiety and only 6.7% of men with mild stress, 6.6% of women with moderate to severe stress and further 6.7% of men and 3.3% of women with extremely severe stress. Findings showed that there was significant increase the nursing personnel are challenged to provide standard and quality nursing care. There is a need for the nurses to take active part to restore the life as clients who are sick and well, young and old to maximum functional capacity. Psychiatric nursing is a recent development in the Indian nursing setup. More and more nurses are taking up this specialty; gradually the role of the psychiatric nurses is expanding liaison nursing.