Earnest, Rajasingh (2012) Effectiveness of selected Nursing Intervention in improving functional status among Elderly with impaired Mobility. Masters thesis, Sacred Heart Nursing College, Madurai.
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Abstract
This study intended to be an experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of selected nursing intervention in improving functional status among elderly with impaired mobility residing in selected old age homes in Madurai. An experimental approach was used for this study. The design adopted for the study was Quasi Experimental pre test post test control group design. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for this study .The sample consisted of 60 patients, in that 30 were in Experimental group and 30 were in Control group. The experimental group was instructed to do the selected therapeutic exercise for 20 days and the control group was treated with routine care. The tool used for data collection procedure was Functional activity index scale. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the analysis of data. The major findings were, before administration of therapeutic exercises in experimental group 30 sample (100%) were partially dependent. But after administration of therapeutic exercises 23 samples (76.66%) were become independent and 7 (23.33%) sample belong to partially dependent group where as in control group in pre and post test 30 (100%) samples were in partially dependent (100%) category. The mean functional activity score of experimental group 46.30 after administration of therapeutic exercise on day 20 is higher than mean functional activity score 33.56 before administration of therapeutic exercises. The obtained‘t’ value is 10.19 which was significant at 0.05 level df (58). There was no association between the functional activity score of the subjects with selected demographic variables like age, sex, education status, co-morbid diseases, body mass index and previous history of fall and fracture. The study concludes that the selected therapeutic exercise found to be effective in improving functional status among elderly with impaired mobility residing in selected old age home in Madurai.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Nursing ; Intervention ; functional ; Elderly ; Mobility. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Medical Surgical Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Umamagheswari P |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2017 10:22 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2018 08:30 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/2194 |
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