This study was conducted to assess abuse and depression in elderly individuals. The universe of this descriptive and cross-sectional study consisted of individuals over the age of 65 years who were attending in a university at Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus hospital between October 2017 and March 2018. The sample consisted of a total of 310 elderly individuals. In the study, the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test were used as data collection tools. It was determined that abuse and depression scores were high in elderly individuals who were single, who had an primary school education orbelow, who had an income less than their expenditure, who had no social security. There was a positive, significant and moderate relationship found between the depression and abuse scores of the elderly individuals. It is recommended that mental health professionals should consider the association of depression and abuse for the risk groups determined in our study.

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确定老年人的虐待和抑郁。

进行这项研究以评估老年人的虐待和抑郁。这项描述性和横断面研究的范围包括在2017年10月至2018年3月之间就读于北塞浦路斯土耳其共和国医院的一所大学的65岁以上的个体。该样本包括310名老年人。在这项研究中，老年抑郁量表和Hwalek-Sengstock老年人虐待筛查测试被用作数据收集工具。已确定，单身，受过小学或以下教育，收入低于支出，没有社会保障的老年人的虐待和抑郁得分较高。老年人的抑郁和虐待得分之间存在积极，显着和中等的关系。