2. Materials and Methods

This research is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design using control group. The study population consisted of all older people living in Iranian elderly care centers in Dubai. Of these, 40 were selected as study samples (20 men and 20 women) and were randomly assigned into two groups of intervention (10 men and 10 women) and control (10 men and 10 women). The inclusion criteria were being resident in nursing homes, willing to participate in educational sessions, lacking mental and physical disorders, and having at least a secondary education. The exclusion criterion was withdrawal from participation in any session. The intervention group received self-care education one 2 h session per week for 3 months (In total 12 sessions). The data collection tools were Snyder hope scale, the Oxford happiness inventory, and the World Health Organization quality of life scale. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS v. 21 using multivariate analysis of variance (MANCOVA).

3. Results