Improvement of psychoeducational program and the cummunity support system of prevention of depression for older adults.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330202
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
• Principal Investigator: Kusaka Nahoko 同志社女子大学, 現代社会学部, 教授 (70309384)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TSUCHIDA Noriaki 立命館大学, 総合心理学部総合心理学科, 教授 (40217328) ; NARUMOTO Jin 京都府立医科大学, 大学院医学研究科精神機能病態学 (30347463)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: うつ予防 / well-being / 生きがい / 高齢者 / 地域

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Psychoeducational program of subjective well-being of older adult, named "Ikigai Program" was improved. "Ikigai program revised" include the workshop of emotional development and the skill of mindfulness. We had conducted revised program to community senior citizens, older female inmates and women college students. The results of comparing the differences of pre-post test scores on the scales of subjective well-being and cognitive functions between the subjects of the revived program group, Ikigai program group and control group, both the revived group and Ikigai program group were significantly improvement in the scores ofsubjective well-being and cognitive functions. It shows that the revised program is better on cost effectiveness than Ikigai program.

Free Research Field

地域臨床心理学