The Effects of Using a Health Promotion Program for Elderly (Food, Exercise, Emotion, Sleepand Social Distancing) in Spreading of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Abstract

during the Covid-19 epidemic situation to prevent infection May cause the elderly to have a deterioration in the body and brain due to prolonged stay at home. This quasi-experimental research to study the effect of using a health promotion program for the elderly in the home group, according to the principles of 5 key Groups (food, exercise, emotion, relaxed and away from society outside the home). The sample group was 70 elderly people stuck at home, divided into 35 experimental groups and 35 control groups. The experimental groups received health promotion programs. The duration of the trial was 10 weeks. The data were collected using a questionnaire assessing demographic data and  knowledge of self-care behavior passed content integrity verification and analyzing the sentiment of the questionnaire by determining Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The confidence values were .82 and .85, respectively. A comparative analysis of the results of the t-test was used.

The results showed that The experimental group had a statistically significantly higher mean score on the health promotion knowledge and behavior after the experiment than before the experiment (p-value < 0.001) and had better health behaviors after the experiment than before the experiment Statistically significant (p-value < 0.001). When compared after the experiment between the experimental group and the comparison group. It was found that the experimental group had statistically significantly higher scores on knowledge and health behaviors of the elderly than the comparison group (p-value < 0.001). Knowledge of health promotion and behavior of the elderly in the epidemic situation of COVID-19 After the experiment of the experimental group, The mean scores after the experiment was higher than before (p<0.05). It was found that the difference was statistically significant (p-value < 0.05). After the experiment of the experimental group, the mean health behavior scores in the elderly after the trial were greater than before (p<0.05) and found that the difference was statistically significant (p-value < 0.05).