The Effects of Community Participation Empowerment Program on the Self-Care Abilities in Fall Prevention among the Elderly in Na Fai Sub-district, Muang District, Chaiyaphum Province
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Empowerment program, Community participation, The Self-Care Abilities, Fall Prevention among the ElderlyAbstract
This study was a quasi-experimental research with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The study aimed to examine the effects of community participation empowerment programs on self-acre abilities to prevent falls in the elderly. The study samples were 30 elderly people and 8 key informants of the empowerment in Na Fai Sub-district, Muang District, Chaiyaphum Province. Purposive sampling and inclusion criteria based on Gibson’s empowerment concept were used. The experimental group received 8-week empowerment program by community participation developed by the researcher.The program activities included providing knowledge and balancing test (Time Up and Go Test), home visits, exercise skill practice, and empowerment, supported by community leaders, health care personnel and relatives. Research tools used to collect data consisted of 3 sections: 1) personal information 2) environmental information 3) elderly self-care ability assessment form and the ability to manage the environment to prevent falls in the elderly. The treatment used in the experiment was an empowerment program by community participation. Content validity of the questionnaires was verified by 5 experts. The reliabilities of the instruments were 0.80, 0.79 and 0.80 respectively. The data were analyzed using frequency, distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and paired-samples t-test.
The results showed that after participating in a community-based empowerment program, the elderly participants had higher mean scores of self-care ability and ability in managing the environment to prevent falls, and balancing ability compared to their baseline at the .05 statistical significance level.
Tambon Health Promoting Hospital should bring Community Engagement Empowerment Program to apply and expand the results in the elderly in the diabetic group, Hypertension and various chronic diseases to enable the elderly to have self-care behaviors to prevent falls sustainably.
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