TY - JOUR T1 - Effect of Self-Care Training Program on Quality of Life of Elders TT - بررسی تأثیر برنامه آموزشی خود مراقبتی بر کیفیت زندگی سالمندان JF - IJN JO - IJN VL - 25 IS - 75 UR - http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1229-en.html Y1 - 2012 SP - 1 EP - 8 KW - Quality of Life KW - Self- Care KW - Aging KW - Elderly KW - Training N2 -   Background & Aims: Nowadays the elderly population is growing all over the world. Diseases and conditions resulting from this evolutionary process can be costly to governments and cause many disabilities which severly affect the erderly’s quality of life. This study aims to determine the effect of self-care training program on quality of life of elderly.   Material & Methods: It is a controlled randomized trial which was carried out on 60 elderly referred to Omid’s elderly care center in Borougen city. After convenience sampling, the elderly were randomly assigned to two groups of experimental (n=30) and control (n= 30) groups. The experimental group participated in a three months self- care training program. Data was collected by the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and analyzed using SPSS-PC (v.11).   Results: The findings showed a significant difference in the mean scores of quality of life between the experimental and control groups (P M3 ER -