Depression levels associated with quality of life for the older people at Jambangan nursing home in Surabaya

Background: Psychosocial problems in the older people often occur because physical changes will naturally decrease, in line with increasing age, so that the older people become vulnerable to various degenerative and chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, resulting in several disorders. This study aims to determine the relationship between depression level and the quality of life of the older people at the Jambangan Nursing Home in Surabaya. Methods: The design of this research is correlational analytic with approach cross sectional. The sample using simple random sampling is 80 older people at UPTD Griya Werdha Jambangan Surabaya. The independent variable in this study was the depression level as measured by the questionnaire instrument Geriatric Depression Scale. The dependent variable in this study was the quality of life as measured by questionnaire instrument the WHOQOL-BREF. Data analysis using Spearman rho test = 0.05. Results: The results of this study indicate that most of the older people have moderate psychosocial levels as many as 27 respondents (33.8%) and most of the older people in the category of good quality of life as many as 53 respondents (66.3%)