Effectiveness of Calisthenics Exercise on Improving the Level of Self Esteem among Elderly People Residing in Selected Old Age Homes at Tirunelveli District

“A study to assess the effectiveness of calisthenics exercise on improving the level of self esteem among elderly people residing in selected old age homes at Tirunelveli district". The study was conducted by Miss.Suganya.B in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in Nursing at the Sri K. Ramachandran Naidu College of nursing under the Tamilnadu Dr M.G.R.Medical University during the year of October 2019. OBJECTIVESs: 1. To assess the pre-test and post-test level of self-esteem among elderly people in experimental group and control group. 2. To find out the effectiveness of calisthenics exercise on self-esteem among elderly people in experimental group. 3. To compare the pre-test and post-test level of self-esteem among elderly people in experimental group and control group. 4. To associate the post-test level of self-esteem among elderly people in experimental group and control group with their selected demographic variables like age, religion, educational status, previous occupation, marital status, previous monthly income, present monthly income, duration of stay in old age home, number of children and mode of admission. HYPOTHESES: All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance RH1-The mean post-test level of self-esteem among elderly people in experimental group will be significantly higher than the mean post-test level of self esteem in the control group. RH2- The mean post- test level of self-esteem among the elderly people in experimental group will be significantly higher than the mean pre-test level of self esteem. RH3 - The mean post-test level of self-esteem among elderly people in control group will be significantly lower than the mean pre-test level of self esteem. RH4 – There will be a significant association between the post- test level of self- esteem among elderly people in experimental group and control group with their selected demographic variables like age, religion, educational status, previous occupation, marital status, previous monthly income, present monthly income, duration of stay in old age home, number of children and mode of admission. The study was based on modified Ernestine Widenbach’s helping art of clinical nursing theory. The quantitative research approach was used. The design adopted for the study was quasi experimental pre-test and post-test control group design. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 elderly people. The study was conducted in selected old age homes at Tirunelveli district. In that St.Anne’s old age home, shalom old age home were selected for experimental group. In the same way Jayam helping home trust and hill charity old age home were selected for control group. The tool used for the study was modified self esteem inventory. The content validity of the tool was established by four nursing experts and two medical experts in the field of psychiatry. The reliability of the tool was r = 0.08 established by split half method by using Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient formula. The tool was found to be reliable. Pilot study was conducted to find out the feasibility of the study and obtained data were analyzed. The tool was found feasible. The pre test level of self esteem was assessed by modified self esteem inventory. The elderly people with mild low self esteem and moderate low self esteem were selected as samples. The researcher selected 30 samples for the experimental group and 30 samples for the control group. Calisthenics exercise was given to experimental group and no intervention was given to the control group. The post test level of self esteem was assessed by using same tool and the collected data was analyzed both in terms of descriptive and inferential statistics. MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY: • In experimental group the post test mean value of self esteem was 64.5 with the standard deviation of 16.29. In control group the post test mean value of self esteem was 50.3 with the standard deviation of 14.9. The calculated ’t’ value was 3.42. • In experimental group, it showed the mean value of self esteem was 60.5 with the standard deviation 14.02 in pre test and the mean value of 64.5 with the standard deviation 16.29 in post test. The mean difference was 4. The calculated ‘t’ value was 3.42. • In control group, it showed the mean value of self esteem was 45.3 with the standard deviation 12.1 in pre test and the mean value of 50.3 with the standard deviation 14.9 in post test. The mean difference was 5. The calculated ‘t’ value was 2.41. • The findings showed that there was a significant association between the post test level of self esteem of elderly people in experimental group with their demographic variables such as age, present monthly income and there was no significant association between the post test level of self esteem of elderly people with the demographic variables such as religion, educational status, marital status, number of children, previous occupation, previous monthly income and duration of stay in old age home at P<0.05 level. • The findings shows that there was no significant association between the post test level of self esteem of elderly people in the control group at P