Showing 2 results for Mansourian
Habibeh Matin , Babak Rastgarimehr, Mohammad Eshagh Afkari , Mahnaz Solhi , Mohammad Hosein Taghdisi, Morteza Mansourian, Zahra Shafieyan , , Mostafa Qorbani , Hamid Asayesh , Hamid Jafaraliloo ,
Volume 13, Issue 6 (9-2014)
Abstract
Background: increasing the population of aged, Consequently Increasing rate of chronic disease and to decreasing quality of life level caused many problems in different communities. The important aim of this study was surveying the effect of an educational intervention by use of the educational components of precede model on quality of life in the elders.
Methods: This semi-empirical research was performed on 54 aged people in two group-case and control- for the Aged in 2009. In this study two questionnaires the designed questionnaire based on PRECEDE model and the questionnaire on the quality of life standard of the World Health Organization (WHOQOL) were used and the quality of life of the aged people in two groups before and after one month from the educational interference was evaluated. Independent t-test paired T-test, one way ANOVA, was used for data analysis.
Results: The average total score of the quality of life of the aged people of test group, showed a meaningful difference before and after educational interference with a p quality less than 0.05, but there wasn’t a meaningful difference between total scores of two groups. Though the relationship of attitude (predisposing factors), enabling factors (skills) and behavioral factors with quality of life of a p quality less than 0.05 was meaningful. But knowledge (predisposing factor) and reinforcing factors didn’t show a meaningful relationship with the quality of life.
Conclusion: It seems that the health, education and health promotion programs are effective on quality of life in the aged people.
Hamid Asayesh, Mostafa Qorbani , Mohammad Parvaresh Masoud, Hossein Rahmani Anarki, Hossein Ansari, Morteza Mansourian, Aziz Rezapour, Farshad Sharifi, Rasoul Mohammadi,
Volume 13, Issue 6 (9-2014)
Abstract
Background: Health staffs have different attitudes and beliefs toward elders that have effect on their behaviors in health service delivery to elders. This study was done for determination of Golestan province health centers general practitioners (GPs) attitude toward elders.
Methods: In this cross sectional study, 152 general practitioners of Golestan province health centers were selected via random sampling. The Kogan's Attitudes toward Older People Scale (KAOPS) questionnaire was used as data gathering tools. Data analysis was done in SPSS 16 software using Pearson correlation coefficient, paired t-test, t-tests and one way ANOVA test.
Results: Mean (standard deviation) of participants age was 34.73 (6.26) years. Mean (standard deviation) of total score of attitude toward elder scale was 115.48 (10.22) (score range in scale 34-204). 54.2 percent of GPs have lower score than mean. Negative attitude mean score were higher than positive attitude mean score which was statistically significant (P= 0.0001).
Conclusion: According to our finding, only half of GPs had favorite attitude toward elder. Whereas negative attitudes were higher than positive attitude toward elder, designing some programs for change in attitude of heath care staffs is necessary.
