Evaluación de la adaptación del programa de entrenamiento socio-afectivo OnMente en un grupo de adultos mayores de la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

The socio-affective stimulation in the elderly population allows maintaining and developing functions in this area. This investigative work evaluates the adaptation of the training socio-affective program “OnMente” in a group of elderly people in the city of Loja, It has been performed a methodology of a lengthwise survey, and quasi-experimental. Relevant sociodemographic information was collected and it has been valued by the application of a pre assessment and a posttest to elderly people from the center, considering the stimulated abilities of the adaptation of the program “OnMente”, for that it was used the Depression scale “Geriatric–Yesavage”, Ryff Psychological well-being scale, BRCS Resilience scale, Perceived social support questionnaire Duke-Unc. The results obtained from this investigation demonstrate the effectivity of the adaptation of the stimulation socio-affective program OnMente, which accomplished to maintain and improve the levels in two sub-scales of the questionnaire of psychological well-being, self-acceptance, and positive relationships.