RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POST ADMISSION ANXIETY OF THE NEWLY ADMITTED NURSING HOME RESIDENT AND CHANGES IN SELECTED ORGANIZED ACTION SEQUENCES.
Contributors: University of Maryland at Baltimore.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This correlational study investigated the relationship between the post admission anxiety of 30 first time, mentally alert admittees to a nursing home who ranged in age from 66 to 94 (mean 81.7) and selected changes that they reported in the management of 24 activities of daily living. Twenty-seven of the subjects were female. All subjects were admitted to a nursing home following an acute care admission at one of three participating facilities. Baseline data were collected in the acute care setting within 72 hours of the nursing home admission. Follow-up data were collected in the nursing home setting 7-10 days following admission. Indices of post admission anxiety included: State anxiety, systolic blood pressure, and heart rate. Indices of change included scores derived from an instrument developed by the researcher, the Activity Change Questionnaire. Hypotheses were derived from Mandler's (1975, 1984) explanation of anxiety which suggests that anxiety is an emotional reaction which may result when habitual behavior is unexpectedly blocked and result when habitual behavior is unexpectedly blocked and cannot be completed.

Data obtained did not support the research hypotheses derived from Mandler's conceptualization although 16 of 27 hypothesized relationships were in the predicted direction. Data indicated that subjects generally characterized both expected and reported change as unfavorable. The correlation between pre nursing home admission State anxiety and unfavorable expected change was found to be significant r = .44 (28), p = .01, one-tail test .
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-11, Section: B, page: 4468.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT BALTIMORE, 1986.

School code: 0373.