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| Assessing the validity of a social history intervention to individuate nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Jennifer L Hillman, Thomas E Skoloda, Delores Zander |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 25, no 1, January/February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 37-50 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Historical studies ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Attitude ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The efficacy of a social history intervention to individualise nursing home and members' patient perceptions is examined. The aim was to generate more positive attitudes, foster more tolerant perceptions of patients' problem behaviours, and to maximise staff members' perceived rewards of caregiving. Unlike previous studies that have demonstrated the effectiveness of such an intervention in a hypothetical setting, the current study aimed to assess the efficacy of the intervention among actual nursing home patient-staff pairings. Use of the social history intervention did not produce the predicted changes in staff perceptions and attitudes. Alternative explanations for the lack of significant findings among this sample of nursing home staff, such as employee burnout and attitudinal polarisation, are presented. Suggestions for successful use of this intervention in other institutional settings are provided. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990318212 A |
| Classmark | DB: HL: KX: LHB: DP: 4C |
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