TY - JOUR AU - Jindachart, Jiranan AU - Soboon, Saowanee AU - Palakai, Rungrat AU - Kaveenuntachai, Duangrat PY - 2022/05/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Effectiveness of an Older Adult Potential Development Program with Montessori-Based on Promoting Cognition Prevention of Dementia, Ubon Ratchathani Province JF - Journal of The Royal Thai Army Nurses JA - J Royal Thai Army Nurses VL - 23 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - UR - https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JRTAN/article/view/252758 SP - 502-510 AB - <p>This study was quasi-experimental research with the one-group pretest-posttest design. The proposes were to compare older adults’ cognitive scores before and after receiving the potential development based on the Montessori program. The 45 participants were home-bound older people and without dementia. Simple random sampling with frame and inclusion criteria were used for the recruitment of participants. Instruments were employed to collect data comprised a demographic questionnaire and the Mini-Mental State Examination-Thai 2002 (MMSE-Thai 2002). An experimental instrument was an older adult potential development program based on the Montessori and this program was verified for content validity by three professional experts. The MMSE-Thai 2002 was tested reliability with test-retest in 30 older adults who were the same characteristics with the participants and reported a Pearson’s correlation of .81. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and one-way repeated measures ANOVA.</p><p>This research findings revealed that the mean of participants’ cognitive scores after receiving the program was significantly higher than before receiving the program (p&lt;.05). The mean cognitive scores of participants before implementing the program were 27 (<img title="\bar{x}" src="https://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\bar{x}" /> = 27, S.D = 2.89). Besides, the mean of participants’ cognitive scores after finishing the program on that day and two months later were 29 (<img title="\bar{x}" src="https://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\bar{x}" /> = 29, S.D = 1.18) and 27 (<img title="\bar{x}" src="https://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\bar{x}" /> = 27.30, S.D = 2.37), respectively. The program can be utilized in daily living activities for older adults to enhance their cognitive function and prevent dementia.</p> ER -