Improved self-management ability and well-being in older women after a short group intervention

Kremers, Ismay; Steverink, Nardi; Albersnagel, Frans A.; Slaets, Joris P. J.

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“…It indicates that people are actively engaged in maintaining their important resources, not just in dealing with losses after the fact. Ultimately this knowledge may help to design SMA interventions (Frieswijk et al 2006;Kremers et al 2006) and as such be useful for policy and practice in supporting older people's active pursuit of their own wellbeing.…”

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“…The phrasing of all items and details on the sub-abilities can be found in Schuurmans et al (2005). In principle, the sub-abilities can be measured separately, but this is meant primarily for measuring the effectiveness of manipulations of each of the six sub-abilities in SMA intervention studies (see Frieswijk et al 2006;Kremers et al 2006). Essentially, self-management ability is represented by the orchestrated use of all abilities, which together make up overall SMA.…”

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Do good self-managers have less physical and social resource deficits and more well-being in later life?

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Lindenberg

2008

Eur J Ageing

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Proactive self-management is likely to be part of resource maintenance and well-being in later life, but empirical evidence is scarce. Therefore, we investigated (a) whether self-management ability (SMA) is associated with lower resource deficits, and (b) whether it is related directly and indirectly to life satisfaction (LS), positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). Regression and mediational analyses (N = 439, aged 65 years and older), showed that SMA related to resource deficits, and had direct associations with the three well-being indicators. Indirect associations-via lower resource deficits-were found for LS, whereas the association between SMA and PA was mostly a direct one, being mediated only to a small extent by physical resource deficits. The association between SMA and NA was mediated only by social resource deficits. It is concluded that better SMA seems to matter to resource maintenance and well-being, but future research needs to unravel the differential findings for physical and social resource deficits and for the separate well-being indicators.

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Do good self-managers have less physical and social resource deficits and more well-being in later life?

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Lindenberg

2008

Eur J Ageing

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“…The LUSTRE course applicants were the single women aged 55 years and older who applied to take part in a study in which the LUSTRE course was to be evaluated (see Kremers et al, 2006). The women were recruited through advertisements in local newspapers in the Netherlands (two regions) in 2004.…”

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“…In a former study (Kremers, Steverink, Albersnagel, & Slaets, 2006), a newly developed psychoeducational group intervention for single older women was described and tested. The target group was single older women suffering from loneliness, lack of well-being, and lack of control about their own situation.…”

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“…This title fits well to the content of the course, because the course focuses on improving positive self-management abilities and well-being (instead of on directly reducing loneliness). The LUSTRE course is based on the Self-Management of Wellbeing theory (SMW theory: Steverink, Lindenberg, & Ormel, 1998;Kremers et al, 2006). This theory aims to provide an explanation of how people manage to realize and sustain overall well-being when they grow older.…”

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Single Older Women Who Applied for the Giving Life More LUSTRE Course: Are They the Target Group That Was Aimed for?

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Educational Gerontology

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Interventions Associated With Reduced Loneliness and Social Isolation in Older Adults

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ImportanceLoneliness and social isolation are public health concerns faced by older adults due to physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that develop with aging. Loneliness and social isolation are associated with increased morbidity and mortality.ObjectiveTo evaluate interventions, targeting older adults, associated with a reduction in loneliness and social isolation.Data SourcesOVID, CINAHL, CENTRAL, Embase, PsychINFO, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched from inception to March 2020.Study SelectionPeer-reviewed randomized clinical trials measuring loneliness and social isolation or support in adults aged 65 years or older. Only English language articles were included.Data Extraction and SynthesisTwo independent reviewers screened studies, extracted data, and assessed risk of bias. Random-effects models were performed to pool the overall effect size by intervention. Statistical heterogeneity was evaluated with the I2 statistic and by estimating prediction intervals. Data were analyzed from November 2021 to September 2022.Main Outcomes and MeasuresQuantitative measures of loneliness, social isolation, or social support based on an effect size of standardized mean differences.ResultsSeventy studies were included in the systematic review (8259 participants); 44 studies were included in the loneliness meta-analysis (33 in the community with 3535 participants; 11 in long-term care with 1057 participants), with participants’ ages ranging from 55 to 100 years. Study sizes ranged from 8 to 741 participants. Interventions included animal therapy, psychotherapy or cognitive behavioral therapy, multicomponent, counseling, exercise, music therapy, occupational therapy, reminiscence therapy, social interventions, and technological interventions. Most interventions had a small effect size. Animal therapy in long-term care, when accounting for studies with no active controls, had the largest effect size on loneliness reduction (−1.86; 95% CI, −3.14 to −0.59; I2 = 86%) followed by technological interventions (videoconferencing) in long-term care (−1.40; 95% CI, −2.37 to −0.44; I2 = 70%).Conclusions and RelevanceIn this study, animal therapy and technology in long-term care had large effect sizes, but also high heterogeneity, so the effect size’s magnitude should be interpreted with caution. The small number of studies per intervention limits conclusions on sources of heterogeneity. Overall quality of evidence was very low. Future studies should consider measures of social isolation in long-term care and identify the contextual components that are associated with a reduction in loneliness.

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Improved self-management ability and well-being in older women after a short group intervention

Cited by 69 publications

References 24 publications

Do good self-managers have less physical and social resource deficits and more well-being in later life?

Do good self-managers have less physical and social resource deficits and more well-being in later life?

Single Older Women Who Applied for the Giving Life More LUSTRE Course: Are They the Target Group That Was Aimed for?

Interventions Associated With Reduced Loneliness and Social Isolation in Older Adults

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