The Effects of Mental Health Encourage Program Group Psychoeducation Model Together with the Five – dimensional Psychological Happiness Model to Develop the Quality of Life and Happiness of the Elderly
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Quality of Life, Happiness, Mental Health Encourage Program on Group Phychoeducation Model Together with the Five – dimensional Psychological Happiness Model, ElderlyAbstract
This research is a quasi-experimental one group-pretest-posttest design. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of a mental health promotion program using a group psych education with a 5-dimensional psychological happiness model of the older adults. Samples were 30 socially dependent older adults in the municipality of Chum Het, Buriram Province. The research tool consisted of a mental health promotion program using a group psych education combined with 5-dimensional psychological happiness model that developed by the researchers. The content validity index of the program was 0.92. The Cranach’s alpha coefficient reliability of the happiness scale and the quality of life scale for older adults was 0.84 and 0.88, respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics of frequency distribution, percentage, mean score, standard deviation and t-test.
The results showed that the mean scores of overall quality of life and happiness after participating in the mental health promotion program using a group psych education with the 5-dimensional psychological happiness model was significantly higher than the mean score of overall quality of life and happiness of those participants before attending the program at the .05 level. The results of this study show that The Effects of Mental Health Encourage Program Group psych education Model Together with the Five – dimensional Psychological Happiness Model to Develop the Quality of Life and Happiness of the Elderly can be used as a guideline for appropriate activities to promote mental health among the elderly.
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