The Effect of Electronic Education of Healthy Lifestyle on the Elderly’s Awareness and Satisfaction

Abstractbackground and purpose: the major motivation behind all human communities’ efforts andtransformation is to promote and advance human beings health. this study aimed at to compare theeffect of a healthy lifestyle electronic education on the knowledge and satisfaction of the elderly.materials and methods: this semi-experimental method has been done along with pre- andpost-test for people 65 and older at sari-based retirement club in 2011. a total of 30 elderlypeople have been chosen through simple random sampling in two distinct 15 individual classesfor women and men. the learners’ knowledge about nutrition has been assessed by using thestandard questionnaire. the data have been described by spss software, using descriptivestatistics and inferential statistics.results: mean score of elderly’s awareness before electronic education was 1.72 with thestandard deviation of 0.71 which increased to 2.37 for the mean and 0.90 for the standarddeviation after the education. the paired t-test with 3.20, the observed difference is significant atthe error level of 0.05. the mean of elderly’s awareness before education was 11.55 with thestandard deviation of 1.56 that increased after education 6.38 and 1.48, respectively. the level ofsatisfaction in the elderly was 52.73 with the standard deviation of 5.16.conclusion: the result showed that training through educational film has been more effectiveon the elderly people’s nutritional knowledge and also the old people have been satisfied withthe healthy lifestyle training through educational film. thus, training via film and othereducational means is recommended to promote the elderly’s health as a more efficient andeffective method.