The importance of the university of the third age to improved mental health and healthy aging of community-dwelling older adults

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17110%2F24%3AA2502L62" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17110/24:A2502L62 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03601277.2023.2240663" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03601277.2023.2240663</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2023.2240663" target="_blank" >10.1080/03601277.2023.2240663</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The importance of the university of the third age to improved mental health and healthy aging of community-dwelling older adults

Original language description

The aim of this uncontrolled interventional study was to determine the effect of a yearly educational course within the University of the Third Age on quality of life, life satisfaction, sense of coherence, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, attitudes toward old age, and older people's perception of social support. The population included 121 community-dwelling older people who had completed a yearly educational course within the University of the Third Age (three educational modules: 1. Cardiovascular Diseases, 2. Mental Health, and 3. Neurological Diseases; 16 lectures and two practical lessons for each module). Psychosocial factors were evaluated using the following tools: the Older People's Quality of Life questionnaire (OPQOL_brief), the Life Satisfaction Index for the Third Age - Short Form (LSITA-SF), the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ), the Sense of Coherence scale (SOC-13), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and social support. After completing the yearly educational cycle, older people who had had lower scores for individual parameters at the beginning of the study were found to have a statistically significant improvement (p < .001) in anxiety, depression, quality of life, sense of coherence, life satisfaction, attitudes toward old age and aging, and perceptions of social support. To promote healthy aging, education at universities of the third age is recommended for lonely older people and older people with symptomatology of anxiety and depression.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50300 - Education

Project

<a href="/en/project/NU21-09-00067" target="_blank" >NU21-09-00067: SUPPORT OF HEALTHY AGEING: USING EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS TO MAINTAIN MENTAL HEALTH, FOR PREVENTION AND TIMELY DIAGNOSIS OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS OF OLDER ADULTS IN A COMMUNITY</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

EDUCATIONAL GERONTOLOGY

ISSN

0360-1277

e-ISSN

1521-0472

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

175-186

UT code for WoS article

001043217600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85166930105