TAILIEUCHUNG - The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people

Early researchers in the field played down individual personality disturbances as causal agents of family violence in favour of social and cultural factors (27). More recently, though, research on family violence has shown that abusers who are physically aggressive are more likely to have personality disorders and alcohol-related problems than the general population (28). Similarly, studies restricted to violence against older people in domestic settings have found that aggressors are more likely to have mental health and substance abuse problems than family members or caregivers who are not violent or otherwise abusive (29–31). Cognitive and physical impairments of the abused older person were strongly identified in the early studies as risk factors for abuse. However, a. | Iranian JPublHealth Vol 39 2010 Original Article Downloaded from http on Monday December 24 2012 The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people rr Ỉ 1 I II 2 rr 2 m m I 2 rt ST r 1 J 2 H Malekafzali MBaradaran Eftekhari F Hejazi T Khojasteh R Heidari Noot K Falahat2 T Faridi3 1Dept. of Epidemiology Biostatistics School of Public Health Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iran 2Center for Development of Research Technology Deputy of Research Technology Ministry of Health and Medical Education Iran 3Active member of local NGO Iran Received 3 Jan 2010 accepted 21 Apr 2010 Abstract 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 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 but in other age groups and in the men s groups no difference were exercises in women has increased after the intervention P . With regards to mental health life satisfaction among women under study has increased from 68 to 90 after the intervention P . Feeling happy most of the time has increased from 53

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