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| Does expressive writing reduce stress and improve health for family caregivers of older adults? | | Author(s) | Corey S Mackenzie, Ursula J Wiprzycka, Lynn Hasher |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 47, no 3, June 2007 |
| Pages | pp 296-306 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Writing ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Management [care] ; Quality of life ; Time conditions ; Family care ; Stress ; Health [elderly] ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Participants were 40 family caregivers of older adult members of the day centre at a geriatric teaching hospital affiliated to the University of Toronto. They were randomly assigned to expressive writing (n=14), time management (n=13) or history writing (n=13). Participants wrote for 20 minutes on four occasions over a 2-week period, and completed self-report measures of caregiver burden and health prior to the intervention, immediately afterwards, and at 1-month follow-up. Contrary to expectations, expressive writing and history writing participants performed similarly across outcomes. Only caregiver participants in the time management condition experienced significant mental and physical health improvements after writing. These results add to a growing body of research demonstrating equivocal effects of expressive writing with clinical samples, and they suggest the potential benefit of written time management for stressed caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080402209 A |
| Classmark | HKP: DB: QA: F:59: 4E: P6:SJ: QNH: CC: 7S |
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