Healthy Lifestyles in Old Age: Effects of Psycho Educational Intervention With Older Men

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“…Only two studies (Murta and Tróccoli, 2009;Pinheiro et al, 2006) reported clear in the text whether the loss of participants and/or the data lost was correctly addressed, or at least that the quality of the data had been reviewed before statistical analysis. All studies reported results in line with the objectives proposed, despite seven studies having reported the variables of interest for this review as secondary outcome measures (e.g., Borges and Seidl 2014;Coelho and Murta, 2007;Cuadra-Peralta et al, 2012;Murta and Tróccoli, 2009;Pivaral et al, 2015;Pureza et al, 2012;Rocha et al, 2013). The majority of studies published achieved good standards in terms of methodology quality.…”

“…The number of medium-quality papers which included pre-post evaluations is modest to only four studies including a psycho-education intervention for self-care of elderly males in Brazil (Borges and Seidl, 2014); a social skills educative training for parents of children with behavioural problems in Brazil (Pinheiro et al, 2006); a social skills training for university students with social anxiety/phobia in Brazil (Pureza et al, 2012); and a brief behavioural intervention for the management of emotional states of teachers in Chile (Vera-Villarroel et al, 2005). Only one medium-quality paper used follow-up study at T2 (four months) and reported improvement in Assertiveness and Empathy following a psycho-education intervention (Borges and Seidl, 2014).…”

“…Only one medium-quality paper used follow-up study at T2 (four months) and reported improvement in Assertiveness and Empathy following a psycho-education intervention (Borges and Seidl, 2014). One medium-quality study utilized a pre-experimental design and was shown to result in increased Coping and no significant results for Assertiveness following a psycho-education intervention for carers of demented elderly (Espín-Andrade, 2009).…”

“…For those, the variables of interest manipulated in intervention programmes include Assertiveness, Coping, Empathy and Optimism. Out of the remaining studies reviewed there were three interventions for parents of children with cognitive or behavioural problems (Coelho and Murta, 2007;Pinheiro et al, 2006;Rocha et al, 2013), aimed to improve Assertiveness, Coping and/ or Empathy; two for elderly people (Borges and Seidl, 2014;Cuadra-Peralta et al, 2012), aiming to positively impact on Assertiveness, Empathy, Forgiveness, Gratitude and/or Optimism; one intervention for Rheumatoid Arthritis patients (Quiceno et al, 2011), focusing on Assertiveness, Gratitude and Resilience; one for abused women (Cruz-Almanza et al, 2006), to improve Assertiveness and Coping; and one intervention programme for students with social anxiety and social phobia (Pureza et al, 2012), which aimed to but did not present significant results for Assertiveness or Empathy. Also in terms of participants' characteristics, 46.6% (seven studies) reported to have included at least 30 participants to compose the sample (Cruz-Almanza et al, 2006;Cuadra-Peralta et al, 2012;Tróccoli, 2004, 2009;Pinheiro et al, 2006;Quiceno et al, 2011;Toledo et al, 2011).…”

“…Of those, the number of female participants (N=277) outstood males (N=108) by more than double, and the variables of interest manipulated included Assertiveness, Coping, Empathy, Gratitude and/or Resilience as primary or secondary outcome measures. Three programmes were specifically delivered for women (Cruz-Almanza et al, 2006;Rocha et al, 2013;Vera-Villarroel et al, 2005) (N=76),aiming to improve Assertiveness, Coping, Empathy and/or Optimism, whereas one intervention programme specific for men (Borges and Seidl, 2014) (N=13) focused on Assertiveness and Empathy. Five studies (Cuadra-Peralta et al, 2012;Espín-Andrade, 2009;Tróc-coli, 2007, 2009;Toledo et al, 2011) failed to provide information of participant's gender, including the variables Assertiveness, Coping, Gratitude, Forgiveness and Optimism.…”