Healthy Aging Research
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Abstract

Reaching for Cardio-Metabolic Fitness and Resilience through Self-Healing and Guided Individualized Cyber-Therapy ? an Opportunity to Reenergize Primary Care

Ali Asghar Shamsabadi

The goal of this study was to see how effective group reminiscence therapy (GRT) is for improving mental health and happiness in elderly hemodialysis patients. From February 1 to August 30, 2019, 60 elderly patients undergoing hemodialysis participated in this clinical trial. Simple random allocation was used as the sampling method. The intervention was then delivered to the patients in the experimental group over the course of eight sessions, twice a week, using structured GRT. However, no interventions were given to the control group. The results revealed that the difference in mean mental health status scores between the experimental and control groups was significant following the implementation of GRT (p0.05), indicating that the experimental group’s mean scores (30.768.07) were lower than the control group’s (37.136.28) after the given intervention. The experimental group’s mean happiness scores had also increased significantly after GRT (114.47.98) compared to the control group (93.0319.97) (p0.05). It was concluded that implementing GRT could improve the mental health and happiness of elderly and adult hemodialysis patients over the age of 50.

Published Date: 2021-01-24; Received Date: 2020-04-22