THE THERAPY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY OF THAI-PUAN (THAI FOLK DANCE) TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS FOR THE ELDERLY PERSON WHO HAS IMPROPER AND LOW QUALITY IN SLEEPING

Abstract

           This research importantly focuses on the therapy development activity of Thai-Puan (Thai folk dance) to solve the problems for the elderly person  who has improper and low quality in sleeping  and to study the results of sleeping quality between experimental  and controlled group before and after doing  Fon Thai-Puan (Thai folk dance) activities by using the principle of aerobic dancing.

            With this research, the experimental group are the 60-79 year-old-people. There are 16 elderly people who have low quality in sleeping. From that number, there is a half for experimental group and the other for controlled group. The research design is the experimental group research between before and after the experiment. The data collection is collected by the sample group using the statistics: T-test, mean and standard deviation.

            The results of studying are 1. There are three processes of activities for the therapy development activity of Thai-Puan (Thai folk dance) using the principle of aerobic dance to solve the problems for the elderly person  who has improper and low quality in sleeping which are 1.1) warm up 1.2) aerobic workout and 1.3) cool down processes. The duration for this research is about eight weeks, three times per week (24 times for the total) and 20-40 minutes at a time. With the consideration about the efficiency of research instrument from the experts, it can be concluded that the therapy development activity of Thai-Puan (Thai folk dance) using the principle of aerobic dance is in a good level.

            2) The result of the therapy development activity of Thai-Puan (Thai folk dance) using the principle of aerobic dance to solve the problems for the elderly person who has improper and low quality in sleeping  is that the average point after the experiment is lower than before, statistically significant at the 0.5 level.