Attitudes and lifestyle changes following Jog your Mind: results from a multi-factorial community-based program promoting cognitive vitality among seniors.
This study examined the effects on attitudes and lifestyle behavior of Jog your Mind, a multi-factorial community-based program promoting cognitive vitality among seniors with no known cognitive impairment. A quasi-experimental study was conducted. Twenty-three community organizations were assigned either to the experimental group (offering the program) or to the control group (creating a waiting list). They recruited 294 community-dwelling seniors. The aims of the study were to verify the effects of the program on attitudes and behaviors related to cognitive vitality and to explore its effects on cognitive vitality. Data was collected at baseline and after the program. Regression analyses revealed that, following their participation in the program, experimental group participants reported: (i) in terms of attitudes, having a greater feeling of control concerning their cognitive capacities, (ii) in terms of behaviors, using significantly more memory strategies and practicing more physical activity and stimulating activities than control group participants. However, the program had no significant effects on measures of cognitive vitality. This study supports the fact that a multi-factorial community-based program can have significant effects on seniors' attitudes and lifestyle behaviors related to cognitive vitality but at short term, no effects on cognitive vitality it-self were found.
Department of Kinesiology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.|Université de Montréal Public Health Research Institute (IRSPUM), Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.|Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGÉS), Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal, Côte St-Luc, Québec, H4W 2T5, Canada.
Sophie
S
Laforest
Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGÉS), Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal, Côte St-Luc, Québec, H4W 2T5, Canada.
Agathe
A
Lorthios-Guilledroit
Direction de Santé Publique de la Montérégie, CISSS Montérégie-Centre, Longueuil, Québec, J4K 2M3, Canada.|Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Kareen
K
Nour
Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGÉS), Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal, Côte St-Luc, Québec, H4W 2T5, Canada.
Manon
M
Parisien
Direction Régionale de Santé Publique, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2L 1M3, Canada.
Michel
M
Fournier
Department of Kinesiology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Dave
D
Ellemberg
Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGÉS), Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal, Côte St-Luc, Québec, H4W 2T5, Canada.
Danielle
D
Guay
Department of Kinesiology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Charles-Émile
CÉ
Desgagnés-Cyr
School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.|Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, 4545, Queen-Mary Road, Montréal, Québec, H3W 1W5, Canada.
Nathalie
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Bier
D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D060825:Cognitive Dysfunction / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male