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| Relationship between stress appraisals and coping strategies of nurses and geriatric inpatients | | Author(s) | Catherine Devany Serio, Stephen M Auerbach |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 4, no 4, Winter 1998 |
| Pages | pp 421-434 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Morale ; Attitude ; Nurses ; Patients ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 61 nurses and 46 patients in a US veterans' hospital inpatient geriatric ward were evaluated to assess the extent to which they appraised situations associated with hospitalisation as stressful, how they would cope with these stressors, and their overall appraisal of changeability and controllability of stressors. Nurses viewed patients as experiencing far higher stress levels than patients themselves reported experiencing. There was poor concordance between the two groups in the ranking of stressfulness of particular situations. Though the two groups did not differ in overall appraisals and changeability and control, nurses preferred coping strategies for dealing with situations that were more problem focused and less emotion focused than those of the patients. For patients, perception of control was related to lower ratings of stressfulness and relatively greater use of problem-focused and less use of emotion-focused coping strategies. Patients with higher perceptions of control also tended to be better adjusted to the hospital environment as evaluated by independent behavioural ratings. The needs to foster patient-nurse communication and to enhance patient perception of control are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990318218 A |
| Classmark | QNH: DQ: DP: QTE: LF: 4C: 7T |
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