Reminiscence interviews as stress management interventions for older patients undergoing surgery.
A standard reminiscence interview and one that focused on successfully met challenges reduced state anxiety and enhanced coping self-efficacy when measured against both attention-placebo and no-intervention control groups in a sample of 104 elderly male patients facing surgery. Age-peer interviewers did not elicit significantly greater overall reductions in state anxiety or increases in coping self-efficacy scores than younger interviewers (nonpeers), but did produce significantly higher coping self-efficacy scores than nonpeers when administering the challenge reminiscence interview.
Department of Psychology and Social Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy