The Effects of the Program Happy Reminiscence Therapy on Quality of Life in Older Persons with Dementia with Depressive Symptoms in Elderly Home
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Happy reminiscence may promote quality of life among the elderly. This quasi-experimental research, which employed a two-group pre-test post-test design, aimed to examine the effects of the Happy Reminiscence Therapy program on quality of life and depressive symptoms among the elderly with dementia and depressive symptoms. The participants were the residents of an elderly home care facility, who were diagnosed with senile dementia and depressive symptoms. They were recruited by a purposive sampling technique and divided into an experimental group and a control group, with each group composed of 32 participants. The research instruments consisted of the experimental instrument, which was the happy reminiscence therapy, and the data-collection instruments, including the demographic data questionnaire, Thai Mini-Mental State Examination (TMSE), Barthel Activities of Daily Living index (Thai version), WHOQOL – BREF – THAI, and Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (Thai version). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Friedman test, the Whitney U test, and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The results revealed that after the intervention and at the 1-month follow-up, the mean scores of quality of life and depressive symptoms of the experimental group were significantly better than the control group. The results indicate that the Happy Reminiscence Therapy program could increase the quality of life and decrease depressive symptoms among the elderly with early dementia with depressive symptoms in the elderly home care.
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บทความและรายงานวิจัยในวารสารพยาบาลกระทรวงสาธารณสุข เป็นความคิดเห็นของ ผู้เขียน มิใช่ของคณะผู้จัดทำ และมิใช่ความรับผิดชอบของสมาคมศิษย์เก่าพยาบาลกระทรวงสาธารณสุข ซึ่งสามารถนำไปอ้างอิงได้
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