Quality of life Education and Health-Promoting Behavior of the Elderly, Na Seaw Sub-District, Muang District, Chaiyaphum Province
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Quality of Life Education, Health-Promoting Behavior, Elderly
Abstract
This research aimed to study the general conditions of the community, quality of life, and healthpromoting behaviors of the elderly. The study also examined the quality-of-life development process and health-promoting behaviors of the elderly in Na Seaw Sub-District, Muang District, Chaiyaphum Province. The sample group consisted of 30 older people in Na Seaw Sub-District and a group of key informants: village health volunteers, public health officials, municipal council members, village headman, village philosopher, and school teacher representatives for ten people. The research tools used were as follows 1) Quality of life questionnaires, 2) Health promoting behaviors, 3) Knowledge of how-to self-care and elderly care, 4) Satisfaction with participating in educational activities to
improve the quality of life and health-promoting behaviors, 5) In a group conversation, data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and use test statistics, Paired t-test. The results of this research found that four magnitudes of life quality are good physical and mental conditions, social and environmental relations at a high level, and health-promoting behaviors of the elderly must also be high. The quality-of-life development process and health-promoting behaviors of the elderly include organizing food training according to nutrition, exercise, stress management, exchange of experiences to build interpersonal relationships, meditation practices for spiritual development, and group discussion. The elderly were satisfied with participation in educational activities to improve their quality of life and health promotion behaviors at the highest level (M = 4.44, SD = 0.61).
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