正念茶禪對於中高齡者正念止觀覺察注意力及生活品質之影響=The Effects of Mindfulness Tea Zen on Quality of Life and Mindful Awareness Attention in Middle-Aged and Elderly Individuals
Background and purpose: Previous results in clinical psychology and neuroscience indicate that mindfulness may be an effective strategy to promote attention and regulate emotions. The combination of mindfulness and tea Zen hopes to help middle-aged and elderly people move towards a healthy and happy old age. Materials and methods: This experiment adopts non-random assignment, control group pre-test and post-test design, open recruitment of 45-64-year-old middle-aged and elderly people, regardless of gender, the experimental group is conducted once a week, 90 minutes each time, for four consecutive weeks of group Mindfulness and Tea Zen courses intervention. Control group only maintained simple teas for 30 minutes each time. The assessment tools were the Taiwanese concise version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) and the Chinese version of the "Stop Observation, Perception and Attention Scale". Results: 30 people in each group completed the experiment. The analysis of basic data showed that the two groups were of the same quality. (1) After the intervention of Mindfulness and Tea Zen, the two groups had significant differences in the percentage of change in the degree of attention (P < 0.001); (2) After the intervention of Mindfulness and Tea Zen, the quality of life of the experimental group has an upward trend, but there is no significant difference between the two groups. Conclusion: The Mindfulness and Tea Zen course can improve the mindfulness, mindfulness awareness, and attention of middle-aged and elderly people. Research has found that the attention of mindfulness, and awareness increases, and the quality of life will also improve. If the mindfulness tea zen course can be integrated into life, it can benefit middle-aged and senior citizens. The learner experienced the process of physical and mental transformation and an effective physical and mental intervention to face the future life, and is a strategy to effectively improve mindfulness and awareness.
