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International Journal of Advanced Psychiatric Nursing

P-ISSN: 2664-1348, E-ISSN: 2664-1356
International Journal of Advanced Psychiatric Nursing
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2024, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A

Perceived stress and coping strategies among senior citizens in selected urban and rural community, Bankura, West Bengal

Sunita Patra Mondal and Binapani De

A descriptive survey was conducted on assessment of Perceived stress and coping strategies among senior citizens living in Bankura block 1 and Bankura municipality ward -20, west Bengal with 104 senior citizens aging 61 years and above selected by simple random sampling technique. The objectives were to assess the level of stress of senior citizens, to find out coping strategies adopted by them, to ascertain relationship between stress and coping strategies, and to determine the association between stress and adopted coping strategies with selected demographic variables. Structured interview schedule was used to collect demographic characteristics. Standardized PSS Scale was used to assess level of stress and standardized brief COPE Scale was used for measuring adopted coping strategies. The study results depicted that majority (71.16%) of senior citizens in urban and most (84.62%) of senior citizens in rural had moderate stress whereas 28.84% in urban, 15.38% in rural senior citizens had severe stress. Majority of senior citizens in urban (61.55%) and rural (63.47%) were having adopted moderate coping strategies, religious coping strategies was use both in urban and rural. Stress was negatively correlated (-0.62) with adopted coping strategies at 0.01 level of significance. Stress and coping strategies were significantly associated with age, occupation, socio-economic status, type of familial support, chronic physical illness. The present study was limited to age up to 80 years of senior citizens. The scope of generalization of findings was limited to present study population. The findings will enable nursing personnel to become more observant in health care services. An experimental study can be done to reduce stress among senior citizens.
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International Journal of Advanced Psychiatric Nursing
How to cite this article:
Sunita Patra Mondal, Binapani De. Perceived stress and coping strategies among senior citizens in selected urban and rural community, Bankura, West Bengal. Int J Adv Psychiatric Nurs 2024;6(2):39-45. DOI: 10.33545/26641348.2024.v6.i2a.173
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