ผลของจิตบำบัดประคับประคองโดยครอบครัวมีส่วนร่วมต่ออาการซึมเศร้าของผู้ป่วยโรคซึมเศร้าวัยสูงอายุ/ อุดมลัษณ์ ศรีเพ็ง = The effect of supportive psychotherapy with participating family on depressive symptoms elderly patients with major depressive disorder / Udomlak Sripeng
The purpose of this quasi experimental research were to compare depressive symptoms of elderly patients with major depressive disorder before and after receiving the supportive psychotherapy with participating family and between the experimental and the control group. Thirty potential participants, whose diagnosed MDD, aged 60 years and older, were recruited from the outpatient department of the Institute of Aviation Medicine Royal Thai Air Force Bangkok . After paired matching characteristics of gender, age, level of depressive symptoms and treatment, participants were randomly assigned to the experimental and the control group with 15 each. The experimental group received the supportive psychotherapy with participating family, developed by applying the concept of Winston, Rosenthal and Pinsker (2004), while the control group received the usual care. Data collection by using, the personal questionnaire, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression Thai version (HRSD-T), and the positive relationship level scale. All instruments were tested for validity and reliability. The reliability of the HRSD-T using Chonbach's Alpha coefficient was .83 .The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test. Major results were as followings: 1. Depressive symptoms of elderly patients with major depressive disorder after receiving the supportive psychotherapy with participating family were statistically significant lower than those before, at the.05 level. 2.Depressive symwptoms of the experimental group who received the supportive psychotherapy with participating family were statistically significant lower than those in the control group, at the .05 level.