Si Moo Minnie

Nursing innovators are people with the ability to create beneficial health innovations. Consequently, developing nursing students to create innovative learning processes alongside the development of professional nursing skills is important. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of an activity package in developing nursing innovators among nursing students in public higher education institutions. This quasi-experimental study was conducted at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand, 2021. Thirty third-year undergraduate nursing students were randomly assigned to one group. The activity package based on design thinking model. Data were collected before, immediately after, and eight weeks after the intervention using “innovative knowledge” and “nursing innovative skills” questionnaires. The descriptive statistics, paired t-test, and analysis of variances with repeated measures were used to analyze the data in this study. The mean score of knowledge w...

Thailand is the country where large numbers of old population are living in rural areas. Multiple factors are influencing the health of old people but falling is the biggest cause affecting their quality of life. This study explores the relationship between the quality of life, and fear of fall among aging people in the semi-rural, Thailand. A cross sectional study was conducted on 394 old aged individuals living in Nakornnayok Province. Participants were selected through simple random method (SRM) from village population list. Old people were interviewed by adapting World Health Organization quality of life instrument-older module (WHOQOL-OLD) to access the quality of life. Multiple logistic regression analysis was applied to identify factors associated with QOL. Above half of respondents during this study were female, married, educated with age 70.45 ± 6.99. Majority of aging had low income and were not enrolled for their health check-up at hospitals on regular basis. Over a half ...

Falls among the elderly caused by many factors and situations. The researcher has identified falls risk factors, and these were commonly grouped as either intrinsic factors (related to the elderly themselves, such as a history of fall, fear of falling, muscle weakness, poor balance) and extrinsic (outside of the individual, hazard environmental, polypharmacy use). Elderly who had fallen may suffer, injuries, disability affecting the quality of life of the elderly. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a multicomponent and exercise calendar to prevent falls and improve quality of life among the elderly people in Nakornnayok province, Thailand. This study was a quasi-experimental study among 100 elderly people. Fifty from Tambon Paka, Banna District, Nakornnayok Province were in the intervention group and 50 elderly people from Tambon Saimoon, Ongkarak District, Nakornnayok Province were in control group. Six months intervention program included 1) health education regarding ris...

Background: Previous evidence indicates that older people allocate more of their attentional resources toward their gait and that the attention-related changes that occur during aging increase the risk of falls. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in Banna District and Ongkarak District, Nakornnayok Province, Thailand. One hundred elderly people participated in this study. Gait was assessed by a Time Up and Go Test (TUGT) while the One legged stance test (OLST) assessed balance performance. The Falls Efficacy Scale (FES) measured fear of falling of the elderly people. A WHOQOL-BREF instrument assessed the quality of Life among elderly people. Results: The findings revealed that 58% of the participants were female, aged between 60-74 years (mean = 66.39, SD 3.65). Over a 12 month period, 57% of participants had experienced a fall once, 41% had experienced 2 falls while 2% had experienced 3 or more falls. One-third of the elderly people who participated in the study had a f...

Background: Thailand is the country where large numbers of old population are living in rural areas. Multiple factors are influencing the health of old people but falling is the biggest cause affecting their quality of life. This study explores the relationship between the quality of life, and fear of fall among aging people in the semi-rural, Thailand. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on 394 old aged individuals living in Nakornnayok Province. Participants were selected through simple random method (SRM) from village population list. Old people were interviewed by adapting World Health Organization quality of life instrument-older module (WHOQOL-OLD) to access the quality of life. Multiple logistic regression analysis was applied to identify factors associated with QOL. Results: Above half of respondents during this study were female, married, educated with age 70.45±6.99. Majority of aging had low income and were not enrolled for their health checkup at hospitals on regular basis. Over a half of them suffered from chronic diseases, and one third of them were using instrumental aids such as visual glasses, walker support, wheel chair and hearing aids etc. Majority, (70%) of the participants was living in safe houses but (34%) reported fall at least one time in past year. Mean of fear of fall score (FFS) was calculated (26.97±4.31) and mean of FFS during using public transportation was (9.8756±2.19467). Two third of aging population reported the moderate quality of life (QOL). Conclusions: Study has concluded that the QOL in aging people is related with household safety and confidence to use public transportation.