A Study on Effect of Club Activity for Elderly with Dementia on College Life Satisfaction, Dementia Knowledge, and Dementia Attitude
AUTHORS
Young-Sun Park,Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Kyungbok University, Namyangju-si, Korea
Young-Ju Jee*,Assistant Professor, Dept. of Nursing, Kyungnam University, Changwon-si, Korea
ABSTRACT
The club activities allow students to have various experiences that is not addressed in the regular curriculum, and such activities related to their major affect their learning of major and college life. The purpose of this study was, for their effective club activities, to investigate the effect of club activities related to dementia on the students. The subjects were 26 students who participated in club activities for at least three hours per a week. The pre- and post-test measured their college life satisfaction, dementia knowledge, and dementia attitude and data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired sample t-test. The results showed that the scores of college life satisfaction, dementia knowledge, and dementia attitude increased significantly after club activities, indicating that the club activities related to dementia are effective in improving college life satisfaction, dementia knowledge, and dementia attitude. The results, however, should be confirmed in the replicate design study using control group sample.
KEYWORDS
Dementia, Club activity, College life satisfaction, Dementia knowledge, Dementia attitude
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