The Effects of Group Activity to Promote Awareness on the Cognitive Abilities and Knowledge of Dementia in Elders with Mild Cognitive Impairment
ผลของกิจกรรมกลุ่มเพื่อส่งเสริมการรับรู้ความสามารถในการรู้คิดและความรู้เรื่องโรคสมองเสื่อมในผู้สูงอายุที่มีภาวะสมองบกพร่องระยะต้น
Keywords:
Mild Cognitive Impairment, Cognitive Abilities, Group Activity to Promote AwarenessAbstract
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research was to study the effects of group activities to promote to promote awareness on the cognitive abilities and knowledge of dementia in elders with mild cognitive impairment. The conceptual framework for this study is based on Spector’s concept (Spector, 2003). The sample comprised 33 elders with Mild Cognitive Impairment who were selected in line with this study's inclusion criterion. Members of the school for the elderly at Saimai district Bangkok, This research is a quasi-experimental research one group, pre and posttest design. The sample continuously attended the group activity to promote awareness were reality orientation and cognitive stimulation, each session lasted 90 minutes, once a week for six weeks. The instruments used in the experiment included The group activity to promote awareness for older persons with mild cognitive impairment. The data were collected by using Thai Mental State Examination and knowledge of dementia test. The reliability of the research instruments were 0.86 and 0.84 respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and t-test.
Major findings were as follows: 1) 75.76% of elderly is between 60-69 years, 78.79% were women, 48.48% graduated in primary education,39.39% unemployed,30.30% did not have income ,83.33% of the elderly had underlying diseases and 42.43% of those underlying diseases was hypertension. 2) The average score of cognitive abilities in the sample group after attending the group activity to promote awareness (M=29, SD=1.39) were statistically significantly higher than before participating in group activity to promote awareness (M=27.21, SD=1.41), (t=6.44, p <.05). 3) The average score of knowledge of dementia in the sample group after attending the group activity to promote awareness were not significantly different (p>.05).
Conclusion It can be concluded that the group activity to promote awareness effectively increased the cognitive Abilities of the Elderly with mild cognitive impairment. In addition, this program is a therapeutic intervention that can develop and enhance the cognitive function of Elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
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