Does self-management education for elderly people with chronic diseases improve their quality of life?

Mazloom, Seyed Reza; Moonaghi, Hossein Karimi; Mohajer, Samira; Gharehbaghian, Ahmad

doi:10.15406/mojgg.2018.03.00161

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“…In our study, the self-management domain was correlated with the results from the SOC's comprehensibility subscale. This supports our previous suggestion that it is important to adapt health education and health promotion interventions to the needs and characteristics of the population on treatment with AKOA in order to improve self-management [42]. We also found a correlation between the WHOQOL-BREF's physical, psychological, and environmental domains and the patients' SOC.…”

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“…Meaningfulness is known as the motivational component of the SOC and allows people to see challenges where others only see burdens [39]. Our younger participants achieved a higher level of meaningfulness, which may point at a need to adapt self-management educational programs to the needs and characteristics of the different age groups [42]. Comprehensibility is defined as the cognitive SOC dimension and facilitates the management of information [39].…”

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Sense of Coherence and Quality of Life in Patients Treated with Antivitamin K Oral Anticoagulants: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Rodríguez-Roca

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The aim of this study was to analyze the correlation between the participants’ self-reported quality of life and their sense of coherence in a sample (n = 85) of patients on treatment with oral antivitamin K anticoagulants. A cross-sectional design was used. The measurement instruments included a questionnaire on sociodemographic variables, the Spanish version of the Abbreviated World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF), an oral-anticoagulant-treatment-specific quality-of-life questionnaire, and the sense-of-coherence (SOC) scale. We analyzed the correlations between the participants’ characteristics and the results from the quality-of-life and SOC scales. Age, level of education, employment status, living arrangement, and treatment length were the determinants of the quality of life in people treated with oral anticoagulants. We found a significant association between the four domains of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire and general treatment satisfaction (p < 0.01); no significant correlations were found between the SOC subscales and the oral-anticoagulant-treatment-specific quality of life in our sample. Women had a worse level of self-management than men. Nursing interventions should be tailored to the needs of the populations on treatment with oral anticoagulants in order to facilitate a higher level of self-management.

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Sense of Coherence and Quality of Life in Patients Treated with Antivitamin K Oral Anticoagulants: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Subirón-Valera

Rodríguez-Roca

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Development of home-based care educational programme for the family caregivers of activity limited older people: an educational programme model for community nurses

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2024

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Background/aimA home-based care educational programme for family caregivers of activity-limited older people was developed and implemented to provide caregiver education and to teach basic caregiving techniques. The purpose of the home-based care educational programme was to improve the caregivers’ knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to perform the caregiving tasks with reduced physical strain.MethodsThe educational programme model comprises the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out the caretaking responsibilities of older people, especially those with limited activities. It was conducted as an interventional study recruiting two groups (n=72) as intervention (n=36) and control group (n=36), and the knowledge of the caregivers was evaluated. The teaching sessions were planned considering the adult educational learning theories and guided by a developed educational handbook.ResultsThe pre and post mean±SD knowledge scores of the intervention group (43.78±12.41; 89.78±5.61) showed a significant difference (p<0.001), whereas the pre and post knowledge mean±SD scores of the control group (50.69±17.90; 51.43±17.79) showed no significant improvement (p>0.05). The difference between the pre-test and post-test between the two groups was significant (p<0.0001).ConclusionsAt the end of the educational programme, participants valued the opportunity that they received, and the assessment of knowledge before and after the programme showed an improvement in caregivers’ knowledge. The study suggests conducting home-based or community-based health education programmes for caregivers of older people with limited activities, with the involvement of responsible healthcare professionals and leaders.

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Does self-management education for elderly people with chronic diseases improve their quality of life?

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

Sense of Coherence and Quality of Life in Patients Treated with Antivitamin K Oral Anticoagulants: A Cross-Sectional Study

Sense of Coherence and Quality of Life in Patients Treated with Antivitamin K Oral Anticoagulants: A Cross-Sectional Study

Development of home-based care educational programme for the family caregivers of activity limited older people: an educational programme model for community nurses

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