Effectiveness of the Biography and Life Storybook for Nursing Home Residents: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design
- Is there a difference in nursing home residents’ depression scores after receiving the BLSB intervention compared to those who participated in usual daily care?
- Is there a difference in nursing home residents’ life satisfaction scores after receiving the BLSB intervention compared to those who participated in usual daily care?
- Is there a difference in nursing home residents’ QoL scores after receiving the BLSB intervention compared to those who participated in usual daily care?
2.2. Settings and Participants
2.3. Intervention
2.4. Data Collection
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. GDS-15 Depression Scores
3.2. LSIA (Life Satisfaction) Scores
3.3. QoL (Quality of Life) Scores
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Demographic Characteristic | Intervention (n = 37) | Control (n = 37) | χ2 | p-Value | ||
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n | (% Within Row) | n | (% Within Row) | |||
Gender | 1.51 | N.S. | ||||
Male | 22 | (44.9) | 27 | (55.1) | ||
Female | 15 | (60.0) | 10 | (40.0) | ||
Marital Status | 4.96 | N.S. | ||||
Married | 23 | (52.3) | 21 | (47.7) | ||
Single | 8 | (72.7) | 3 | (27.3) | ||
Divorced/Separated | 3 | (33.3) | 6 | (66.7) | ||
Widowed | 3 | (30.0) | 7 | (70.0) | ||
Ethnicity | 12.92 | <0.05 | ||||
Chinese | 13 | (31.7) | 28 | (68.3) | ||
Malay | 13 | (76.5) | 4 | (23.5) | ||
Indian | 10 | (66.7) | 5 | (33.3) | ||
Others | 1 | (100) | 0 | (0) | ||
Religious beliefs | 2.66 | N.S. | ||||
Christianity/Catholicism | 6 | (28.6) | 15 | (71.4) | ||
Buddhism | 8 | (40.0) | 12 | (60.0) | ||
Taoism | 0 | (0) | 1 | (100) | ||
Islam | 13 | (65.0) | 7 | (35.0) | ||
Hinduism | 9 | (81.8) | 2 | (18.2) | ||
Others | 1 | (100) | 0 | (0) | ||
Educational level | 2.28 | N.S. | ||||
Primary school and below | 27 | (51.9) | 25 | (48.1) | ||
Secondary level | 9 | (45.0) | 11 | (55.0) | ||
Tertiary level | 1 | (50.0) | 1 | (50.0) | ||
M | SD | M | SD | t | p-value | |
GDS-15 scores (Baseline) | 8.43 | 1.04 | 8.73 | 1.24 | 1.12 | 0.268 |
LSIA scores (Baseline) | 10.24 | 1.40 | 9.00 | 1.78 | −3.34 | <0.05 |
QoL-NHR scores (Baseline) | 144.64 | 2.62 | 146.72 | 4.55 | 2.41 | 0.946 |
GDS-15 Scores | Intervention (n = 37) | Control (n = 37) | DID (Sig.) | |||
Mean | (S.D.) | Mean | (S.D.) | |||
Baseline (T1) | 8.43 | 1.04 | 8.43 | 1.04 | - | |
Week 1 (T2) | 8.16 | 1.50 | 8.49 | 1.43 | −0.027 | |
Week 2 (T3) | 7.35 | 1.51 | 8.38 | 1.36 | −0.730 | |
Week 4 (T4) | 5.81 | 0.91 | 8.43 | 1.34 | −2.324 * | |
Week 8 (T5) | 4.73 | 1.17 | 8.76 | 1.36 | −3.730 * | |
Week 12 (T6) | 4.22 | 0.95 | 8.24 | 1.04 | −3.730 * |
LSIA Scores | Intervention (n = 37) | Control (n = 37) | DID (Sig.) | |||
Mean | (S.D.) | Mean | (S.D.) | |||
Baseline (T1) | 10.24 | 1.40 | 9.00 | 1.78 | - | |
Week 1 (T2) | 10.27 | 1.22 | 9.62 | 1.23 | −0.595 | |
Week 2 (T3) | 10.30 | 1.13 | 9.70 | 1.22 | −0.649 | |
Week 4 (T4) | 10.59 | 1.57 | 9.46 | 1.04 | −0.108 | |
Week 8 (T5) | 11.54 | 2.60 | 9.51 | 1.24 | 0.784 | |
Week 12 (T6) | 12.27 | 2.13 | 9.73 | 1.10 | 1.297 * |
QoL-NHR Scores | Intervention (n = 37) | Control (n = 37) | DID (Sig.) | |||
Mean | (S.D.) | Mean | (S.D.) | |||
Baseline (T1) | 144.64 | 2.62 | 146.72 | 4.55 | - | |
Week 1 (T2) | 144.35 | 2.58 | 144.31 | 2.58 | 2.122 * | |
Week 2 (T3) | 151.86 | 4.11 | 143.57 | 1.94 | 10.378 * | |
Week 4 (T4) | 151.84 | 3.19 | 143.73 | 1.92 | 10.189 * | |
Week 8 (T5) | 152.11 | 3.28 | 144.41 | 2.54 | 9.784 * | |
Week 12 (T6) | 155.73 | 3.05 | 145.62 | 2.63 | 12.189 * |
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Guna, D.; Milburn-Curtis, C.; Zhang, H.; Goh, H.S. Effectiveness of the Biography and Life Storybook for Nursing Home Residents: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 4749. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084749
Guna D, Milburn-Curtis C, Zhang H, Goh HS. Effectiveness of the Biography and Life Storybook for Nursing Home Residents: A Quasi-Experimental Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(8):4749. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084749
Chicago/Turabian StyleGuna, Doraisamy, Coral Milburn-Curtis, Hui Zhang, and Hongli Sam Goh. 2022. "Effectiveness of the Biography and Life Storybook for Nursing Home Residents: A Quasi-Experimental Study" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 8: 4749. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084749