Effects of “the Selected Smartphone Social-Messaging Applications” Training on Iranian Elderly’s Quality of Life: Results of a Qualitative Study

Effects of “the Selected Smartphone Social-Messaging Applications” Training on Iranian Elderly’s Quality of Life: Results of a Qualitative Study

Iranian elderly

Quality of life

Smartphone

Social applications

Semi-experimental qualitative method

This qualitative study aimed to investigate the effects of using smartphone’s communication apps on Quality of Life (QoL) of elderly people living in Shiraz-Iran. The population of the study was all the senior residents registered with local public health centers located in Shiraz, Fars, Iran in 2018-2019. Overall, 20 participants volunteered to join the study, from the intervention and control groups (10 in each). Data were collected via semi-structured face to face interviews and analyzed using open-coding. The findings of this study and the educational training are intended to help families, practitioners in the aging field to pay more attention to teaching modern communication technology in order to promote healthier elderly and community.

Hosseini, Seyed Ebrahim

Charters, Stuart

Anthony, Patricia

Alhazmi, Abdulsalam

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 15 No. 07 (2021); pp. 154-175

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2021-04-09

Copyright (c) 2021 Seyed Ebrahim Hosseini, Stuart Charters, Stuart Charters, Stuart Charters, Patricia Anthony, Patricia Anthony, Abdulsalam Alhazmi, Patricia Anthony, Abdulsalam Alhazmi, Abdulsalam Alhazmi

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