Self-care behaviors in older adults: a qualitative study in a Mexican population

Participants’ Views on Lifestyle Intervention Program Enhancing Long-Term Health-Related Behaviors Improvement among Prehypertension and/or Prediabetes Mellitus Older Adults: A Qualitative Study Examined in Thailand at Health Promoting Hospitals

“…This result was also expressed when comparing between 2 interviewers. When comparing the characteristics and the knowledge among all participants who lived near 7 temples, it can be found that they were low heterogeneity owing to they had little difference in age, [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] lifestyle (66% desired to consume unhealthy foods and irregularly took exercise before attending program), occupation (31% worked as a farmer/agriculturist/ INQUIRY gardener), educational level (87% completed primary school) and the knowledge of diabetes mellitus and hypertension prior to program attendance (70% had little knowledge).…”

“…While mixed results of blood profiles were found in the rest of them. 68 When noticing from the relationships among blood profiles, the frequency of program attendance and the total number of participants who had excess blood monitoring results, it can be seen that high-frequency intervention program attendance was not able to guarantee that they would modify their lifestyle of food consumption and exercise owing to the improvement of their blood profiles and behaviors was constructed from many pillars included the knowledge and advice provided by the program staff, the good result (from the improvement) passed down by word of mouth from peer group together with personal awareness as well as their acceptability of the modification to practice in their daily lives and to be accomplished that was corresponded to those findings of worldwide existing studies which declared that program participation of the elderly associated with internal self-control and motivation to have lifestyle change 49,50,58,59,62,63,64,[69][70][71]…”

“…During program attendance, the participants received knowledge of suitable nutrition and exercise from program staff. It can be seen the participants' intension to accomplish lifestyle modification from the majority of them made changes of eating behavior by themselves or they were supported by family members such as used properly oil to cook food, avoided eating high-fat foods/salty foods/a large amount of carbohydrate and sugar to keep from at high risk for both diabetes mellitus and hypertension 59 and gave the value of food consumption records that were used for developing personal goal to be in good health. 49,60 They also made a change of exercise behavior by themselves 61 or by the support from friends or family members 51 and made a change of sleeping behavior by getting more hours of sleep.…”

“…For those mentioned results, it can be estimated that lifestyle intervention program had partial effects on lifestyle modification by improving the ways of eating and taking exercise of the participants, however, intervention program together with personal attitude, awareness, responsibility and acceptability 59,70 were wholly productive for long-term lifestyle changes which will invigorate their healthy lives.…”