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Brown, Austin

Griggs-Stapleton, Lisa

McKay, Keegan

Wren, Rene

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University of St Augustine for Health Sciences SOAR @ USA Spring 2022 Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium OTD Capstone Symposia 4-12-2022 Leisure Activity and Social Participation Group Therapy to Address Geriatric Depression Symptoms Austin Brown University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Keegan McKay University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Lisa Griggs-Stapleton University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Rene Wren University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://soar.usa.edu/otdcapstones-spring2022  Part of the Mental and Social Health Commons, and the Occupational Therapy Commons Recommended Citation Brown, A., McKay, K., Griggs-Stapleton, L., & Wren, R. (2022, April 12). Leisure Activity and Social Participation Group Therapy to Address Geriatric Depression Symptoms. Poster presented at the Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium, University of St Augustine for Health Sciences. Retrieved from https://soar.usa.edu/otdcapstones-spring2022/45 This Poster/presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the OTD Capstone Symposia at SOAR @ USA. It has been accepted for inclusion in Spring 2022 Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium by an authorized administrator of SOAR @ USA. For more information, please contact soar@usa.edu, erobinson@usa.edu. Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program General Program Goals:1. Develop a group therapy program that focuses on leisure activity and social participation.2. Decrease geriatric depression symptoms in participants. 3.   Develop friendships between participants to increase impact and longevity of program.4. Promote engagement in occupations and activities available within the facility the participants live in.5. Promote social participation in daily lifeFocus of Group Therapy:Focus on engagement of participants in leisure activity.  Emphasis placed on ensuring social participation through facilitation of conversations between all participants.  Theoretical Framework: 1. The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO)Leisure Activity and Social Participation Group Therapy to Address Geriatric Depression SymptomsAustin Brown OTS; Lisa Griggs-Stapleton, PhD, OTR/L BACKGROUND METHODS ProgramGeriatric depression is a mental health illness that impacts thousands of people living in long-term healthcare facilities. Geriatric depression impacts every occupation, and among those social and leisure occupations of daily living are heavily affected. Occupational therapist treat geriatric depression, but when using group therapy, it is almost exclusively cognitive-behavioral therapy.Program Outcome Assessment Tools: 1. The Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form2. Pre-program interviews with participants and assisted living facility staff3. Pre, mid, and post program surveys4. Observations of facility’s current installed activities and level of participation by program participants.Interventions: 1. Education on the danger and effects of geriatric depression symptoms2. Education on importance of leisure activities and social participation in daily life.3. Use of intrinsic motivation to encourage higher participation levels within activities.4. Engagement in meaningful leisure activity and social participation to increase life satisfaction and quality of life, and to decrease geriatric depression symptoms.This program utilized the 7-step group therapy design.  An assisted living facility was used to implement this group therapy program.  Surveys and Geriatric Depression Scale Short form (GDS) were taken to evaluate program effectiveness.  PURPOSETo develop a leisure activity and social participation based OT group therapy treatment to address geriatric depression. Outcome objectives: (a) To develop a program for group therapy with a focus on treating geriatric depression. (b) To evaluate the effectiveness of the program in treating geriatric depression. (c) To develop a proposal for the inclusion of this therapy when providing occupational therapy services to people with geriatric depression in long-term care facilities. • 8 total participants• 8-week, 8 session program• Each session was 1 hour long.• Program Design:  Leisure activity for each session was selected based on participant responses in survey.  Two different leisure activities were presented each session, and the participants would vote on the activity to perform.  This was designed to ensure intrinsic motivation towards the activity based on the MOHO model.Activities Performed:1. Dice games2. Arts and crafts3. Domino games4. Sing along• GDS Assessments:  Given on week 1, week 4, and week 8 of the program.• Determined participant eligibility and program effectiveness by determining levels of geriatric depression symptoms.Surveys:• Given on week 1, week 4, and week 8 of the program.• Determined leisure interests, participant satisfaction, and needed adaptations to program or future developments. ReferencesTavares, L. R., & Barbosa, M. R. (2018). Efficacy of group psychotherapy for geriatric depression: A systematic review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 78, 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2018.06.001Taylor, Renee. (2017). Kielhofner’s model of human occupation : theory and application (Fifth edition.). Wolters Kluwer. Yilmaz, N., & Karaca, S. N. (2020). Dissatisfaction with life and absence of leisure time activity: clues to overt depression and occult suicide risk in elderly individuals without significantdisabling disease. Psychogeriatrics : The Official Journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society, 20(3), 337–344. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12504 Zhang, C., Zhang, H., Zhao, M., Liu, D., Zhao, Y., & Yao, Y. (2020). Assessment of Geriatric Depression Scale’s applicability in longevous persons based on classical test and item responsetheory. Journal of Affective Disorders, 274, 610–616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.05.090 TREATMENT TEMPLATE COMPONENTSAcknowledgement: Special thanks to my site supervisor Keegan McKay OTD, OTR/L; and my subject mentor Rene Wren OTD, OTR/LPROBLEMOccupational therapists lack a group therapy treatment option that utilizes leisure activity and social participation to address geriatric depression.

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