Effects of the competency promotion program on dementia prevention competency for community-dwelling older people among village health volunteers
Keywords:
dementia, elder, community, village health volunteerAbstract
Dementia in elders tends to increase. It greatly affects the daily activities living of the elders and the burden of caring for caregivers. Village health volunteers play an important role in participating in the prevention of dementia for elders in the community. This research is a quasi-experimental research with a two-group pretest-posttest design. The purpose is to study the effect of the competency promotion program on the competency in preventing dementia for community-dwelling elders of village health volunteers by applying experiential learning theory together with the concept of participatory learning. The samples consisted of 58 village health volunteers, divided into an experimental group and a control group, 29 elders per group. The research instruments were: 1) a competency promotion program for dementia prevention in elders, 2) a demographic data questionnaire, 3) a questionnaire of knowledge about dementia in elders, 4) a questionnaire of attitude towards caring for the elders to prevent dementia, and 5) a questionnaire of skills in caring for the elders to prevent dementia. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-Square test, Fisher’s exact test, Mann-Whitney U test, Pair t-test, and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The research results revealed that after the intervention, the experimental group had a significantly higher mean scores of knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward in preventing dementia for the community-dwelling elders than before the experiment. Additionally, the experimental group had a significantly higher mean scores of knowledge, skills, and attitudes in dementia prevention for community-dwelling elders than the control group. In conclusion, the program to promote competency in dementia prevention for the elders in the community can enhance their knowledges, skills, and attitudes.
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