การพัฒนาชุดกจิกรรมภูมิปัญญาปราชญ์ชาวบ้านต่อการป้องกันภาวะสมองเสื่อมของผู้สูงอายุในชุมชน

Abstract

Dementia is a chronic disease that affects the quality of life of the elderly. The study aim to develop and study the effect of the folk wisdom activity package on the prevention of dementiaof the elderly in the community in the municipality of Chum Het, Buriram Province. This was a research and development study, a specific sample of 3 0 elderly people with mild cognitive impairment between July and September 2021. Analyze characteristic data using descriptive statistics, distribution of frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. and comparing the mean scores of the Thai Brain Function Test before and after the experiment by using t-test statistics. The results was found that after using the community wisdom brain development activity package the sample group had a statistically significantly higher mean score on the Thai Brain Function Test than before at the 0.0 1 level, and their satisfaction with the overall brain development activity set was at the highest level at 4.62 (SD = 0.45). The use of brain development activities that combine folk wisdom in the elderly Mueang Chum Het Municipality Buriram Province create the right understanding including raising awareness of the prevention of problems stimulates the brain in various ways, helping to prevent dementia in the elderly.