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:: Volume 35, Issue 1 (spring 2025) ::
MEDICAL SCIENCES 2025, 35(1): 44-55 Back to browse issues page
The effectiveness of behavioral activation intervention on increasing self-care behaviors and psychological well-being of the elderly
Ahoo Hedayat Qarahqayah1 , Malek Malek Mirhashemi2
1- MA Student, Department of Clinical Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran
2- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran , mirhashemimalek@gmail.com
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Background: Considering the growing trend of the elderly population in Iran, problems related to their care and health, attention to psychological treatments, and issues such as self-care behaviors and psychological well-being are important. Therefore, the aim of this research was to the effectiveness of behavioral activation intervention on increasing self-care behaviors and psychological well-being of the elderly. Materials and methods: The current study was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design with a 2-month follow-up and a control group. Among all the elderly people aged 65-90 who visited the communication center in Saeed Abad town in 2023, 40 people were selected by convenience sampling and assigned into 2 groups of experimental and control. The self-care questionnaire of Hemmati Maslak Pak et al (2015) and the psychological well-being scale of Ryff (1989) were used to collect data at three time points: pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. The experimental group received 8 sessions of Kanter et al.'s (2009) behavioral activation intervention protocol. The data were analyzed using univariate covariance analysis (ANCOVA) by SPSS-26 software. Results: There was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of self-care behaviors (F=46.18) and psychological well-being (F=54.74). These results were consistent after a 2-month follow-up (P<0.001). After receiving the behavioral activation intervention, the experimental group showed significant improvements in both self-care behaviors and psychological well-being. Conclusion: This study suggests that a behavioral activation intervention can be an effective method for improving the self-care behaviors and psychological well-being of elderly individuals
Keywords: Behavioral activation, Self-care, Psychological well-being, Aging
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Received: 2024/03/3 | Accepted: 2024/04/14 | Published: 2025/03/30
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Hedayat Qarahqayah A, Malek Mirhashemi M. The effectiveness of behavioral activation intervention on increasing self-care behaviors and psychological well-being of the elderly. MEDICAL SCIENCES 2025; 35 (1) :44-55
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Volume 35, Issue 1 (spring 2025) Back to browse issues page
فصلنامه علوم پزشکی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد پزشکی تهران Medical Science Journal of Islamic Azad Univesity - Tehran Medical Branch
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