The Effects of the E²LS³A Health Promotion for Anti-Aging in Older Adults
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E²LS³A health promotion, anti-aging, older adultsAbstract
Introduction: Older adults have physical changes due to organs' function deterioration. Promoting and encouraging practices that assist older people in living long, healthy lives and having a high quality of life is known as health promotion.
Research objectives: To examine the effects of the E2LS3A health promotion for anti-aging in older adults.
Research methodology: This research study was a quasi-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The sample group was 30 older adults in Nakhon Pathom Province. A purposive sample was selected, in which the sample group was tested for one month. The instrument consists of the E2LS3A health promotion manual aimed at the anti-aging process in the older population. Questionnaire on health promotion behaviors for anti-aging in older adults and body composition measurement. The Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) was between .60 - 1.00 and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was .87. Data were analyzed using percentages, means, standard deviation, and paired t-tests.
Results: After receiving E2LS3A health promotion, the older adults had a significantly higher mean score of health promotion behaviors for anti-aging than before receiving health promotion at a statistical level of .05 and improved body composition values. The average body age decreased by one year, the average weight, the average BMI, the average body fat percentage, and the average visceral fat level decreased, the average blood pressure decreased, while the average skeletal muscle percentage increased.
Conclusions: The E2LS3A health promotion can help aging, resulting in a decrease in average weight, average BMI, average body fat percentage, and average visceral fat level, an increase in average skeletal muscle percentage, and a decrease in average blood pressure, resulting in a decrease in physical age.
Implications: The health promotion E2LS3A for anti-aging in older adults should be applied to other areas of the older adults as well.
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