Revista para adultos online
With regard to the health of the elderly, the promotion of emotional-mental health and social relationships is just as important as the promotion of physical health, once it helps to prolong independence and autonomy, conversely, delaying disabilities, chronic diseases, and improving quality of life. Health promotion may be defined as a process of empowering individuals, communities, institutions, and other health agents, to control the determinants of health in order to achieve greater and better health potential and improve quality of life (MS, 2010). The need for policies and programmes that promote physical, social, and mental well-being throughout the life course is imperative, so that aging may be perceived as a positive experience (Ministério da Saúde 2010, Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde, 2005). In Brazil, specificities, and challenges arising from population aging, both within the social, and public health contexts are still little explored as regards the health promotion of the elderly and/or retired people. This is especially relevant in developing countries where approximately 70% of third agers dwell (United Nations, 2013). Population aging has been a worldwide health concern once the index of people aged 60 years or above grows faster than any other age group. Key words: psychology interventions strengths/virtues health promotion elderly retirees Findings are discussed as to their relevance for future intervention designs, policies and services for health promotion. Lack of systematic criteria for programme evaluation was detected. All studies presented favourable effects for primary outcome measures, and two for secondary outcome measures.
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The main strengths worked on in the interventions were Social/Emotional Intelligence, Self-regulation/ self-control, Prudence/self-care, Creativity, and Enthusiasm/Vitality. Out of 445 studies, nine were included in the review.
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SCIELO, BIREME, Pepsic, PsychInfo and Medline databases were searched for empirical articles (2000-2017). The objectives of this systematic review are to identify: strengths/virtues worked in multicomponent programmes for health promotion of the elderly/retirees in Brazil methodological quality criteria and results of these interventions.
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Abstract: Research on intervention programmes aiming to work strengths/virtues for health promotion of the elderly/retirees is still scarce in Brazil.