The Effectiveness of Psychological Empowerment on Social Health of Aging Women in Tehran

The emphasis of World Health Organization on importance of  social health, along with physical health, have turned social health into a common concern for social planners in all societies. Thus, present study attempts to study the effectiveness of psychological empowerment on social health of aging women in Tehran. 

This experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population included all women aged 60 to 70 years in Tehran in 2020-2021. Twenty-four people (12 in the control group and 12 in the experimental group) were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups by available sampling method. Using a pre-test and post-test pilot design with the control group, the aging first completed the Keyes social health questionnaire and then the experimental application of psychological empowerment was performed in 8 sessions on the experimental group and after the post-test sessions was presented for both groups. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data using SPSS v.19 software.

The results showed that psychological empowerment training program on social actualization (F=10.278 and P=0.005), Social integration (F= 19.303 and P=0.001), Social coherence (F=10.685 and P=0.005), social acceptance (F=11.422 and P=0.004) and social contribution (F= 9.649 and P=0.006) There was a significant difference between the two groups in the two stages of evaluation has done. This means that the psychological empowerment program promoted the social health of the aging.

Based on the results of this study, it can be said that psychological empowerment program is effective on the components of social health of older women and the knowledge of experts in the fields of counseling, aging, psychology and health of these trainings can be helpful.