ผู้วิจัย/Authors: ลักษณา พลอยเลื่อมแสง

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Effectiveness of Psychological based Home Care and “Friends help friends” Group on the Development of Emotional Control, Self-Esteem, Quality of Life and Happiness in Thai Elderly.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: The Journal of Psychiatric nursing and mental health, Vol. 21, No. 2, July-December 2007, Page 1.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Elderly is a transition age, especially in terms of physical, psychological, and social health. Health education and well-prepared for life management and self-care needed. A pretest-posttest quasi experimental study for evaluating the effectiveness of psychological-based home care and “friends help friends” group was performed. 35 elderly were selected by simple random sampling from 2 districts of Chiang Mai Province. 4 Home care visits and 2 times of “friends help friends” sharing experiences group among elderly were done by psychiatric nurses during January and March 2007. Elderly were interviewed with a structured and developed questionnaire for assessing their development of self esteem, emotional control, health status, quality of life, and happiness before and after home care and health group. Paired t-test were used for data analysis. The results revealed that after 3 months of 4 home care visits and 2 times of “friends help friends” sharing experiences group about self-preparing, health behaviors, food consumption and common diseases in elderly age, 35 elderly showed the higher score of self-esteem, emotional control, and happiness with the significance ( p=0.002, p‹0.001, p<0.001, respectively). In term of self-esteem, elderly had much more score from pretest to posttest (29.9 2.70 and 31.0 1.87 score respectively). They could control their emotion better (the score from 35.9 3.30 to 37.7 2.70 ). After receiving the intervention, they showed their significant higher score of happiness from 77.6 12.45 to 80.2 12.4. Even, there is no significant development of quality of life and health status, they still show a little improvement in terms of these two variables. It could be concluded that the psychological-based home care and “friends help friends” group are beneficial for elderly. It could help elderly to improve their self-esteem, emotional control, and happiness. Happiness of elderly is the subjective feeling, strong self-esteem and good emotional control are the crucial and influential factors on it. All health professionals should take a responsibility to improve these variables and support elderly to have a well preparing for good self-care and their further life.

Keywords: home care, emotional control, self-esteem, quality of life, happiness, elderly

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2007

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Code: 200800209

ISSN/ISBN: 0857-4553

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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