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The effects of health education on knowledge about A lzheimer's disease and health‐promoting behaviours of older C hinese adults in a nursing home: A pilot study
Author(s) -
Du Li,
Hu Jie
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/ijn.12349
Subject(s) - health promotion , intervention (counseling) , medicine , health education , promotion (chess) , gerontology , disease , nursing , nursing homes , family medicine , public health , pathology , politics , political science , law
This pilot study tested the effects of health education on knowledge of A lzheimer's disease ( AD ) and health‐promotion lifestyles among older C hinese adults residing in a nursing home in W uhan. A convenience sample of 35 elders without AD was recruited from a nursing home in W uhan and provided with a 5 week health education intervention. Participants had little knowledge about AD and had an intermediate level of health promotion. After receiving the intervention, there were significant increases in scores on AD knowledge ( F = 29.69, df = 1.23, P < 0.01) and health‐promotion lifestyle ( F = 4.39, df = 2, P < 0.05). These results suggest that the intervention on AD knowledge and health promotion was effective for elders in this study. Nurses should therefore provide education for elders in nursing homes to improve their AD knowledge and health‐promotion lifestyles, and to prevent or ameliorate AD .