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Ignacio Martinez Escobedo; Kathleen Doherty; Claire Eccleston – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Introduction: Health promotion MOOCs (hpMOOCs) can be designed to educate general audiences on global health issues and provide accessible evidence-based content. Thus, it is essential to assess the instructional design quality of hpMOOCs through more than one perspective to ensure course participants have an effective learning experience and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, MOOCs, Dementia, Risk Management
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Ma'en Aljezawi; Mohammad Al Qadire; Mohammad Suliman; Ahmad Salem Musa; Omar Al Omari; Mohammed ALBashtawy; Atika Khalaf – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The number of individuals with dementia is on the rise, highlighting the need to create effective educational methods that can improve nursing students' understanding and attitude toward this group of people who require special care. Explore the effectiveness of introducing a new curricular course in improving nursing students' knowledge of and…
Descriptors: Dementia, Nursing Students, Knowledge Level, Attitudes
Abdalla Straker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of the quantitative study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention by comparing the improvement in knowledge and attitudes of older adult and caregiver participants in South Carolina. Orangeburg County, a rural area in South Carolina, ranks 8th in the nation for Alzheimer's disease prevalence, according to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Attitudes, Older Adults
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E. Lydia Wu-Chung; Anthony K. Brandt; Melia E. Bonomo; Bryan T. Denny; Christof Karmonik; J. Todd Frazier; Karl Blench; Christopher P. Fagundes – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Maintaining healthy cognitive functioning and delaying cognitive decline in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired adults are major research initiatives for addressing dementia disease burden. Music interventions are promising, non-pharmaceutical treatment options for preserving cognitive function and psychological health in older adults with…
Descriptors: Creativity, Music Activities, Neurological Impairments, Mild Disabilities
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Martine Kajander; Martha Therese Gjestsen; Clive Ballard; Halvor Naess; Diego Alejandro Tovar-Rios; Jane Fossey; Ingelin Testad – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Group-based educational interventions on health promotion for people with early-stage dementia have shown promising results. The aim of this study was to explore the associations between sociodemographic characteristics (e.g. sex, education, marital status) and outcomes of a 12-week group-based educational intervention on health promotion for…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Dementia, Socioeconomic Status, Individual Characteristics