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Remote Support of Elderly Women Participating in Mental Health Promotion Programme during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Group Longitudinal Intervention

The aim of the study was to evaluate the longitudinal changes in mental well-being during the switch of the intervention from a personal contact to a remotely delivered Mental Health Prevention and Promotion Programme in elderly women at high risk of developing depression. The study included 70 wome...

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Autores principales: Juszko, Karolina, Serweta, Anna, Cieślik, Błażej, Idzikowski, Wojciech, Szczepańska-Gieracha, Joanna, Gajda, Robert
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409756
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074073
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author Juszko, Karolina
Serweta, Anna
Cieślik, Błażej
Idzikowski, Wojciech
Szczepańska-Gieracha, Joanna
Gajda, Robert
author_facet Juszko, Karolina
Serweta, Anna
Cieślik, Błażej
Idzikowski, Wojciech
Szczepańska-Gieracha, Joanna
Gajda, Robert
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description The aim of the study was to evaluate the longitudinal changes in mental well-being during the switch of the intervention from a personal contact to a remotely delivered Mental Health Prevention and Promotion Programme in elderly women at high risk of developing depression. The study included 70 women aged over 60 with a mean age of 72.28 years. In order to determine mental well-being, the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) was used at four time points: January, April, September and December 2020. A self-developed questionnaire was used to determine predictors of mental well-being. Two-way ANOVA demonstrated a lack of significant differences between the means in the GDS scores at the four data collection time points (p = 0.21). Frequent use of green areas reduced the GDS score on average by 1.52 points (p = 0.01), while owning a garden by 1.51 points (p = 0.04). The illness of a family member increased the GDS score by an average of 1.7 points (p = 0.02). No significant mood deterioration was found between January 2020 and December 2020 in the studied group of elderly women at a high risk of developing depression, which suggests that the remote support provided in the mental health promotion programme was effective.
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spelling pubmed-89979722022-04-12 Remote Support of Elderly Women Participating in Mental Health Promotion Programme during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Group Longitudinal Intervention Juszko, Karolina Serweta, Anna Cieślik, Błażej Idzikowski, Wojciech Szczepańska-Gieracha, Joanna Gajda, Robert Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The aim of the study was to evaluate the longitudinal changes in mental well-being during the switch of the intervention from a personal contact to a remotely delivered Mental Health Prevention and Promotion Programme in elderly women at high risk of developing depression. The study included 70 women aged over 60 with a mean age of 72.28 years. In order to determine mental well-being, the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) was used at four time points: January, April, September and December 2020. A self-developed questionnaire was used to determine predictors of mental well-being. Two-way ANOVA demonstrated a lack of significant differences between the means in the GDS scores at the four data collection time points (p = 0.21). Frequent use of green areas reduced the GDS score on average by 1.52 points (p = 0.01), while owning a garden by 1.51 points (p = 0.04). The illness of a family member increased the GDS score by an average of 1.7 points (p = 0.02). No significant mood deterioration was found between January 2020 and December 2020 in the studied group of elderly women at a high risk of developing depression, which suggests that the remote support provided in the mental health promotion programme was effective. MDPI 2022-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8997972/ /pubmed/35409756 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074073 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gajda, Robert
Remote Support of Elderly Women Participating in Mental Health Promotion Programme during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Group Longitudinal Intervention
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title_fullStr Remote Support of Elderly Women Participating in Mental Health Promotion Programme during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Group Longitudinal Intervention
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title_short Remote Support of Elderly Women Participating in Mental Health Promotion Programme during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Group Longitudinal Intervention
title_sort remote support of elderly women participating in mental health promotion programme during the covid-19 pandemic: a single-group longitudinal intervention
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409756
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074073
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