Comparison of the Effectiveness of Positive Mindfulness Training and Health Promoting Lifestyle Training on Health Resilience and Psychological Flexibility of the Elderly

Old age is one of the sensitive periods of life in which various dimensions of a person's life, including physical, cognitive, emotional and psychological, undergo changes. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of positive mindfulness training and health promoting lifestyle training on health resilience and psychological flexibility of the elderly. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. Among the elderly living in the nursing homes of the 5th district of Tehran in 2022, 45 elderly people were included in the study by purposeful sampling and were randomly divided into three groups (15 people) to be tested and replaced as controls. The research tools included questionnaires of health resilience (Gibhardt, 2001) and psychological flexibility (Bond et al., 2011). Positive mindfulness intervention and health-enhancing lifestyle training were conducted in 8 90-minute sessions for the experimental groups; But for the control group, no intervention was applied. Data were analyzed using covariance analysis with SPSS version 19 software. The results showed that positive mindfulness training on psychological flexibility (p<0.001, Eta=29, F=19.82) and health-promoting lifestyle on health stubbornness (p<0.001, Eta=29, F=19.26) are effective for the elderly. has had more Based on the findings of the health promoting lifestyle research by adjusting the lifestyle and maintaining responsibility towards physical and psychological health and positive mindset focusing on the facts and paying attention to the here and now and not denying various problems can be an effective method to increase Health tenacity and psychological flexibility of the elderly should be used.