玩基奥库可以减少老年人的孤独感:一项试点研究
Ehud Bodner1, Adi Segev2, Roberto Chernitsky2
1Department of Social and Health Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Games for health journal
|May 29, 2024
概括
在12周内,玩基奥库棋牌游戏显著减少了孤独感,并改善了老年人的幸福感. 这种社会活动为提高这一人口群体的心理健康提供了一个有希望的干预措施.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 心理健康 心理健康
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
背景情况:
- 通过共同活动的社会联系可以减轻孤独感.
- 关于棋盘游戏对心理健康的益处的研究,特别是对于老年人来说,仍然有限.
- 基奥库棋牌游戏是专门设计的,旨在促进小组互动和协作讲故事.
研究的目的:
- 调查基奥库棋牌游戏干预对老年人的孤独和幸福感的影响.
- 为了测试这样的假设:与对照组相比,每周与Kioku互动会减少孤独感,增加幸福感.
主要方法:
- 一个为期12周的随机对照试验,涉及151名老年人 (平均年龄75.05) 在以色列.
- 参与者被分配到一个干预组 (Kioku棋牌游戏) 或一个控制组.
- 孤独 (UCLA孤独度量) 和幸福 (WHO-5幸福度量) 在基线和12周被评估,使用ANCOVA进行分析.
主要成果:
- 对于孤独和幸福感都发现了显著的相互作用效应.
- 干预组的孤独感显著下降 (平均差异:0.62分,P<0.001).
- 干预组的幸福感显著增加 (平均差异:0.79分,P<0.001),而对照组的幸福感有所下降.
结论:
- 基奥库棋牌游戏干预措施有效地减少了老年人的孤独感.
- 这种干预措施成功地促进了老年成人群体的福祉.
- 在老年人中,Kioku提供了一种可行的工具来应对心理健康挑战,如孤独,可能会被COVID-19流行病等因素加剧.
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