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The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people
BACKGROUND: More than 8% of Iran’s populations are elderly. The greatest challenge in this generation is improvement of health and quality of life. So we decided to perform an interventional study with the aim of promoting the health of the elderly. METHODS: This study was a community interventional...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23113002 |
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author | Malekafzali, H Baradaran Eftekhari, M Hejazi, F Khojasteh, T Noot, R (Heidari) Falahat, K Faridi, T |
author_facet | Malekafzali, H Baradaran Eftekhari, M Hejazi, F Khojasteh, T Noot, R (Heidari) Falahat, K Faridi, T |
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description | BACKGROUND: More than 8% of Iran’s populations are elderly. The greatest challenge in this generation is improvement of health and quality of life. So we decided to perform an interventional study with the aim of promoting the health of the elderly. METHODS: This study was a community interventional in Ekbatan Complex. Subjects were elderly. At first, need assessment was done with the participation of 200 elderly by questionnaire. Based on the need assessment, we designed the educational interventions in different fields such as nutrition, mental health, and exercise and then, we compared the results. RESULTS: 0ne hundred elderly participated as interventional group. There were 86% women and 24% of men. Almost 59% were in the 60–69 age group. More than ¼ of the subjects were university graduates. Pre and post interventional groups were matched in age, education and gender. Regarding nutrition, second priority food in women aged 60–69 was rice and after the intervention, it was changed to vegetables (P= 0.05) but in other age groups and in the men’s groups no difference were noted. Aerobic exercises in women has increased after the intervention (P= 0.01). With regards to mental health, life satisfaction among women under study has increased from 68% to 90% after the intervention (P= 0.01). Feeling happy most of the time has increased from 53% to 83% in women aged 60–69 (P= 0.01) and in men from 64% to 83% (P= 0.05) respectively. CONCLUSION: Policymakers should design long-term educational programs to promote the elderly lifestyles. |
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spelling | pubmed-34817592012-10-30 The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people Malekafzali, H Baradaran Eftekhari, M Hejazi, F Khojasteh, T Noot, R (Heidari) Falahat, K Faridi, T Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: More than 8% of Iran’s populations are elderly. The greatest challenge in this generation is improvement of health and quality of life. So we decided to perform an interventional study with the aim of promoting the health of the elderly. METHODS: This study was a community interventional in Ekbatan Complex. Subjects were elderly. At first, need assessment was done with the participation of 200 elderly by questionnaire. Based on the need assessment, we designed the educational interventions in different fields such as nutrition, mental health, and exercise and then, we compared the results. RESULTS: 0ne hundred elderly participated as interventional group. There were 86% women and 24% of men. Almost 59% were in the 60–69 age group. More than ¼ of the subjects were university graduates. Pre and post interventional groups were matched in age, education and gender. Regarding nutrition, second priority food in women aged 60–69 was rice and after the intervention, it was changed to vegetables (P= 0.05) but in other age groups and in the men’s groups no difference were noted. Aerobic exercises in women has increased after the intervention (P= 0.01). With regards to mental health, life satisfaction among women under study has increased from 68% to 90% after the intervention (P= 0.01). Feeling happy most of the time has increased from 53% to 83% in women aged 60–69 (P= 0.01) and in men from 64% to 83% (P= 0.05) respectively. CONCLUSION: Policymakers should design long-term educational programs to promote the elderly lifestyles. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2010-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3481759/ /pubmed/23113002 Text en Copyright © Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Malekafzali, H Baradaran Eftekhari, M Hejazi, F Khojasteh, T Noot, R (Heidari) Falahat, K Faridi, T The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people |
title | The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people |
title_full | The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people |
title_fullStr | The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people |
title_short | The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people |
title_sort | effectiveness of educational intervention in the health promotion in elderly people |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23113002 |
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