THE RESULTS OF THE COMPARISON SELF-CARE KNOWLEDGE, DEPRESSION AND SELF-EFFICACY AMONG THE ELDERLY IN THE COMMUNTY CHANTHABURI PROVINCE USING SELF-EFFICACY PROGRAMS TO PREVENT DEPRESSION

Abstract

The objective of this research was study depression levels, knowledge of self-care of the elderly. And compare depression self-care knowledge and self-efficacy to prevent depression from using self-efficacy programs to prevent depression. There were 400 subjects for the baseline study and 60 subjects were used in the experiment by purposive random sampling. General information inquiry form Self-Care Knowledge Test Depression Assessment and self-efficacy assessments to prevent depression. The questionnaire's IOC value, each question was greater than 0.66, and the self-care knowledge test was confidence. And the self-efficacy assessment questionnaire to prevent depression were .78, .85, respectively. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and t-test. The research findings were as follows: 1) The elderly had a low level of symptoms of depression overall (= 9.12, S.D. = 3.37) when considered item by item. In descending order, they were uneasy, depressed, discouraged (= 9.36, S.D. = 3.49), followed by difficulty falling asleep or staying awake or sleeping too much (= 9.34, S.D. = 3.45), boredom, uninterested. What did you do (= 9.20, S.D. = 3.47) and the item with the lowest score was self-harm or do you think it would be good to die (= 8.80, S.D. = 3.20) respectively. 2) The mean of depression among the elderly group than the control group was statistically significant level. 01 (t = -14,621, Sig. = .000) show that the efficacy of self-defense. Depression of the elderly in the community resulted in a satisfactory reduction in the elderly's post-training depression. 3) The average self-care knowledge of the elderly between the experimental group and the control group was found to be statistically insignificant at the .05 level (t = 0.891, Sig. = .380). and 4) The experimental group had significantly higher self-efficacy to prevent depression than the control group at the .01 level (t = 27.246, Sig.).