PURPOSE
This study was conducted to examine the mutual reciprocal relationship between elders' ego integrity and depression including physical and psycho-social predictors of both variables. The study also investigated the significant predictors of elders' ego integrity and depression.
METHODS
Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from 137 elders.
RESULTS
Perceived health status, self-esteem, family interaction, and depression were significant predictors of ego integrity, whereas pain, self-esteem, and ego integrity were significant factors of depression. The results also showed that ego integrity and depression had reciprocal relationship with each other.
CONCLUSION
Psycho-social factors might be more important to improve ego integrity and to alleviate depression in elderly subjects than physical factors.

Citations

• Impact of Frailty, Depression, and Loneliness on Ego-Integrity in Community-Dwelling Elderly
  Seon Ju Song, Sung Hee Ko, Ji Young Kim, Hyun Kyung Kim
  STRESS.2022; 30(3): 139.     CrossRef
• The Influences of Loss Experiences and Depression on Ego-integrity and Transcendence of Elderly Korean Men and Women
  Jeong-Shin An, Gyu-Ri Park
  The Korean Journal of Community Living Science.2016; 27(3): 405.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a cardiac rehabilitation program for patients with myocardial infarction.
METHOD
The subjects were 45 myocardial infarction patients(22 for experimental group and 23 for the control group). Data were collected through questionnaire survey, blood test, and the treadmill test, between October 1, 1999 and December 31, 2000. As for data analyses, paired and unpaired t-test and x2 test were adopted using the SAS program.
RESULT
1. The post-test revealed that increase in compliance score of health behavior was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group. 2. The increase in HDL cholesterol was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group, in the post-test. 3. The experimental group showed significantly higher duration of exercise time and maximal METs than the control group after the program.
CONCLUSION
The above findings indicate that a cardiac rehabilitation program was effective in increasing compliance of health behaviors, serum HDL cholesterol level, duration of exercise time, and maximal METs in patients with myocardial infarction. Accordingly, we can adopt the individualized cardiac rehabilitation programs as a nursing intervention.