| 英文摘要 |
Due to the rapidly growing population of older adults and people affected with dementia, the costs of dementiacare and the burden of the family will dramatically increase. Taking some useful strategies in the early stage ofdementia may delay cognitive function decline and long-term care facility placement. The purpose of this study was toexamine the effects of group virtual reality games for older adults with mild cognitive impairment in day care centers.This study was a quasi-experimental design. Day care centers in Northern Taiwan were invited and assigned intoexperimental or control group with purposive sampling. A total sample of nineteen older adults with mild cognitiveimpairment were enrolled, ten to the experimental group and nine to the control group. Participants in the experimentalarm received group virtual reality games for forty-five minutes, twice a week, for continuous six weeks. Participants inthe control arm maintained regular activities that were arranged by those day care centers. Data were examined usinganalyses of covariance (ANCOVAs) with the pretest and posttest scores serving as the covariate and dependent variable,respectively. Results showed that there were significant differences between the experimental group and the controlgroup on cognitive status after interventions (F=14.09, p< .05). In order to provide more supportive evidence, futurestudies should consider extending the duration of intervention, running the randomization before baseline measurements,and enlarging the sample size. |
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