[Anxiety and memory in hospitalized adolescents; effect of the projection of a film].
The purpose of our study was the evaluation of the effects of a film on the anxiety and memory of cronically ill adolescents (n. 25) versus healthy adolescents (n. 25). The chronic illness was: renal failure, renal transplantation (6 months before), scoliosis and Crohn's disease. The S.T.A.I.-Y test was administered before and after the film to evaluate the state-anxiety before and after the vision, only the trait-anxiety was evaluated before. The state and trait-anxiety was not abnormal, although the state anxiety was increased in the hospitalized adolescents before the vision (mean S.T.A.I.-Y = 43.2) and was decreasing (mean S.T.A.I.-Y = 37.32) after it. This result confirms the needs of a global paediatric health-care in order to minimise psychosocial traumas, associated with hospitalisation. The second goal of our research was the mood and memory correlation and the mood-congruency. We administered two memory tests (free and guided) using a recorder and a questionnaire. Our study presents a better free-memory in healthy subjects (16.6% vs. 5.16% in the hospitalized adolescents) and a better guided-memory in the healthy subjects (13.7% vs. 7.08% in the hospitalized adolescents). Our results can't confirm the mood-congruency theory, although the study conclusion is concerning a general decreasing of memory competence, following the repeated hospital admissions and the chronic illness.
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Dipartimento di Pediatria, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Italia.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent
Ansia e ricordo in adolescenti ricoverati: influenza della proiezione di un film.