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Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing (한국지역사회간호학회)
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The Effects of a Positive Psychology Improvement Program on Elders' Depression and Death Anxiety

긍정심리향상 프로그램이 노인의 우울과 죽음불안에 미치는 효과

  • Lim, Seung Joo (Department of Nursing, Hoseo University, Research Institute for Basic Science) ;
  • Lee, Hung Sa (Department of Nursing Science, Sunmoon University) ;
  • Kim, Chunmi (Department of Nursing Science, Sunmoon University) ;
  • Ko, Young (Department of Nursing, Gachon University)
  • 임승주 (호서대학교 간호학과) ;
  • 이홍자 (선문대학교 간호학과) ;
  • 김춘미 (선문대학교 간호학과) ;
  • 고영 (가천대학교 간호학과)
  • Received : 2015.07.18
  • Accepted : 2015.09.21
  • Published : 2015.09.30
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Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of a positive psychology improvement program on elders' depression and death anxiety. Methods: This was conducted as a quasi-experimental study with non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The participants were community elders aged over 65 recruited by convenient sampling. A total of 94 elders (32 in the individual experimental group, 32 in the collective experimental group, and 30 in the control group) participated. Data were collected between April and September, 2012 and analyzed by using SPSS/WIN 21. Results: The individual and group approach experimental groups had significantly lower scores of depression than the control group after the treatment (F=7.50, p=.001). For death anxiety, however, only the individual experimental group had a significantly lower score compared to the control group (F=4.56, p=.013). Conclusion: These results indicate that the positive psychology improvement program was effective in decreasing depression and death anxiety in the elderly. Therefore, the program needs to be applied in a customized way fittingly to the characteristics of the elderly in community, and individually and/or collectively according to its purposes.

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