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: Received: 9 January 2024 / Approved: 10 January 2024 / Online: 10 January 2024 (04:35:44 CET)
How to cite:
Zuge, S. S.; Grasel, J.; Watte, A. P.; Gasparin, V. A.; Corralo, V. D. S. Association between Spirituality and Depression in Elderly People with Parkinson’s Disease in Brazil: Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints2024, 2024010755. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0755.v1
Zuge, S. S.; Grasel, J.; Watte, A. P.; Gasparin, V. A.; Corralo, V. D. S. Association between Spirituality and Depression in Elderly People with Parkinson’s Disease in Brazil: Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints 2024, 2024010755. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0755.v1
Zuge, S. S.; Grasel, J.; Watte, A. P.; Gasparin, V. A.; Corralo, V. D. S. Association between Spirituality and Depression in Elderly People with Parkinson’s Disease in Brazil: Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints2024, 2024010755. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0755.v1
APA Style
Zuge, S. S., Grasel, J., Watte, A. P., Gasparin, V. A., & Corralo, V. D. S. (2024). Association between Spirituality and Depression in Elderly People with Parkinson’s Disease in Brazil: Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0755.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Zuge, S. S., Vanessa Aparecida Gasparin and Vanessa da Silva Corralo. 2024 "Association between Spirituality and Depression in Elderly People with Parkinson’s Disease in Brazil: Cross-Sectional Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0755.v1
Abstract
Parkinson’s disease affects a significant number of elderly people around the world, and it is characterized by a variety of motor and non-motor symptoms. Among non-motor symptoms, depression has shown a high prevalence. Nonetheless, complementary therapies have been sought with a view to improving the mental health and quality of life of this population, where spirituality has proven to be a method capable of contributing to the improvement of depression. Accordingly, the objective is to analyze the relationship between spirituality and depression in elderly people with Parkinson’s disease. This is a cross-sectional study, carried out with 35 elderly people living in a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina/Brazil, diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It was possible to measure that the higher the general, religious and existential domains of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, which involve feelings of completeness and satisfaction with life, peace with oneself and the world, and the higher the organizational domain of the Duke University Religion Index, which mainly involves the social component (participation in religious meetings), the lower will be the depression levels in people with Parkinson’s disease. Accordingly, it is concluded that spirituality can, in some way, contribute to the reduction of depression levels in elderly people with Parkinson’s disease.
Keywords
Aged; Parkinson Disease; Spirituality; Depression
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
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