| Summary: | Depression is a common mental disorder in the elderly
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, a pathological
process and not the normal way because of age
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. Symptoms of depression are include
decreased of appetite, insomnia or hypersomnia, loss of energy, fatigue, psychomotor
agitation or retardation, a sense of guilt, impaired concentration, inability to think and
emerging suicidal
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. Elderly population increased risk of malnutrition. Depression is
the most common cause of weight loss and malnutrition in the elderly
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Latihan
Pasrah Diri (LPD) is a mind and body intervention to evoke relaxation response that
is expected to improve the symptoms of depression
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.
In the present time, there are no study that show the effect of LPD on
nutritional status in the elderly with depressive symptoms in Indonesia. The purpose
of this study was to determine whether the LPD can improve the n utritional status of
elderly with depressive symptoms.
This is a quasi-experimental research design sampling procces was done by
consecutive sampling. The subjects of this study is the elderly in the district of
Klaten, Central Java, who visited the Posyandu and meet the inclusion criteria on
October-December 2012. Effect of LPD on nutritional status in the elderly were
statistically assessed by independent t-test, and if the distribution is abnormal will be
count with Mann Whitney test. Differences are considered significant if the obtained
P <0.05 with 95% confidence interval.
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