The Effectiveness of Well-Being Therapy on Quality of Life in Older Adults with Non-Clinical Depression

Aging is a sensitive period of human being's life which requires substantial attention toward the related needs and concerns. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of well-being therapy on the quality of life of the elderly with non-clinical depression.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and follow-up with control group. The present study population consisted of the elderly living in Neshat nursing home in Mashhad in 2019. 28 of them were selected by convenience sampling method and after controlling the inclusion and exclusion criteria, they were randomly assigned to two groups of 14 (experimental and control). Measurement tools were the GDS (Yesavage et al, 1982), AMTS (Hodgkinson, 1972), and the CASP-19 (Hyde et al, 2003). Welfare therapy sessions were also provided to the experimental group in 8 sessions of 90 minutes. In order to test the research hypothesis, descriptive statistics and repeated measures analysis of variance were used in SPSS/24 software.

The results showed that both in the post-test and in the follow-up phase, there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of total quality of life score (Eta=0.43, P=0.001 & F=14.03), and control component (Eta=0.15, P=0.041 & f=4.67). But in the component of selfrealization, autonomy and i pleasure, there was no significant difference between the mean scores of the two groups in post-test and follow-up.

The findings of this study can provide a promising perspective on the effectiveness of positive therapies on the quality of life of the elderly living in nursing homes.