Seah Siang Joo, Brown Laura Je, Bryant Christina
1 Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
3 Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Womens Health (Lond). 2019 Jan-Dec;15:1745506519846747. doi: 10.1177/1745506519846747.
Attitudes to aging have been linked with important health outcomes. It is unclear whether interventions to improve attitudes to aging are effective across cultural contexts. This study investigated the efficacy of an intervention among women of either Australian or Chinese backgrounds.
Among 96 women who provided baseline measures, 86 attended a single, 90-min group session on either healthy aging or healthy diet. Measures of three domains of attitudes to aging were collected at baseline, then immediately and 8 weeks after the intervention.
The intervention improved attitudes in the psychological growth domain, but not the physical change or psychosocial loss domains. Cultural identification did not moderate intervention efficacy.
The findings suggest that brief, culturally inclusive interventions may be partially effective at improving attitudes to aging. Furthermore, research is needed to investigate if the intervention would be more effective when baseline attitudes to aging are less positive.
对衰老的态度已与重要的健康结果相关联。尚不清楚改善对衰老态度的干预措施在不同文化背景下是否有效。本研究调查了一项针对澳大利亚或中国背景女性的干预措施的效果。
在96名提供基线测量值的女性中，86人参加了一次为期90分钟的关于健康衰老或健康饮食的小组会议。在基线时、干预后立即以及干预后8周收集对衰老态度的三个领域的测量值。
该干预改善了心理成长领域的态度，但未改善身体变化或心理社会丧失领域的态度。文化认同并未调节干预效果。
研究结果表明，简短的、具有文化包容性的干预措施可能在一定程度上有效改善对衰老的态度。此外，需要进行研究以调查当对衰老的基线态度不那么积极时，该干预措施是否会更有效。
