The effects of group reminiscence on loneliness and self-steem of elderly health clinic rehabilitation and the retirement centers

Background: Elderly period is the last step of life's exalted levels.The loneliness and the changes of self esteem are from the psychlogical and social needs that may cause problems in this vulnerable group due to changes and lacks in their lives and they will cause serious consequences on their mental health, so present study is done in Sabzevar to examaine the effects of group reminiscence on loneliness and Self-steem of elderly health clinic rehabilitation and the retirement centers Materials and Methods: The present experimental study is examined 73 of male elders who visited sabzevar rehabilitation clinic of elders and retirement centers. These people was selected according to input criterions and devided to interval group (36 persons) and control group (37 persons) by random. To control the effect of pretest on post test results, every group was devided in two groups, one with pretest and the other without first of all,loneliness was held for interval groups (8 sessions, 1 session perweek for an hour), at the end loneliness was measured in all groups and data analyzed by spess 11/5. Loneliness and Self-steem was measured by lonliness question naire and Rosenberg Self-steem question naire. Here the statistical testes was included analyzed of variance; ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, Fishers exact Results: The result for the post test lonliness grades between the two groups showed that there is difference between the interval groups with the average of 10/97 ± 0/423 and the the control group with the average of 13/7 ± 0/587,(P= 0/001). the result for the post test Self – steem grades between the two groups showed that there is difference between the interval groups with the average of 30/58±0/790 and the the control group with the average of 28/38 ± 0/758, (p= 0/048) Conclusion: According to the present study 8 session of group reminiscence had possetive effects on reducing loneliness in and Increased self-esteem