Development of eye-hand coordinate activities program of increasing visuospatial working memory in elderly with type 2 diabetes mellitus : Electroencephalogram study
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Background: Development of an eye-Hand coordination program to enhance visuospatial working memory in the elderly with type 2 diabetes mellitus are beneficial to the health of people and quality of life.
Objectives: The aims of this research study were to develop an eye-hand coordination program and to examine the program’s effectiveness by comparing alpha and beta waves of the EEG observed in the experimental and control groups when given a spatial working memory task.
Methods: The experimental research study involved the elderly with type 2 diabetes mellitus aged 60-75 years from the chronic disease club of Tharuea Hospital, Phra Nakhon Sri Ayutthaya Province. Sixty participants were randomly selected according to the inclusion criteria and equally assigned to the experimental and control group, 30 each. The programme consisted of three 27-minute sessions and included fourteen memory tasks per session. The Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL) was used to control the Corsi Block-Tapping Task, Emotiv EPOC EEG headsets were used, Instruments included MMSE, PHQ-9, WHOQOL and ST-5, Data were analyzed using independent and dependent t-tests.
Results: The study found that 1) the eye-hand coordination program was effective and 2) when compared to the control group, the experiment group regularly showed an improvement in QOL and MMSE, a decrease in ST-5 and PHQ-9 scores, and an increase in visuospatial memory span in the Corsi block tapping task. In addition, the experimental group showed increased alpha and beta brain waves in the frontal, parietal and occipital lobes compared to the control group (p<.05).
Conclusion: Eye-hand coordination could improve spatial working memory in older people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่น ในวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใด ๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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