Geriatric Depression and Migration Factors Among Older Parents in Kathmandu, Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal, is the focus of this cross-sectional mixed-method study of 140 older parents aged over 60 whose adult children have migrated abroad. The dataset, created by Soniya Shrestha and last updated in May 2026, measures depression using the Geriatric Depression Scale and includes associated demographic and social factors. It reveals that nearly half of the surveyed empty nesters had depression, with single parents having significantly higher odds of depressive symptoms.

Use Cases

• Predicting depression risk among older adults based on marital status and migration status of children.
• Analyzing the association between adult children's migration and parental psychological well-being.
• Triangulating quantitative depression scores with qualitative interview themes from 21 in-depth interviews.

Strengths

• Includes a specific quantitative finding: single parents had 28.3 times higher cumulative odds of being in a higher depression category.
• Combines quantitative data from 140 survey respondents with qualitative data from 21 in-depth interviews for triangulation.
• Data is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The geographic scope is limited to a single ward (ward number 9) of Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional mixed-method study using random selection from a social security list, with regression analysis and thematic analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 17:37:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ward number 9 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Nepal.