STRUCTURING HOPE FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CAUSAL MODELING, POSTAL SURVEY, SOCIAL SUPPORT, CHRONIC ILLNESS, HEALTH PERCEPTION).
Contributors: University of California, San Francisco.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this investigation was to examine a simple causal model for hope in adolescents with the chronic illness of cystic fibrosis (CF): (UNFORMATTED TABLE FOLLOWS).

SOCIAL SUPPORT.

HOPE.

HEALTH PERCEPTION.

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Specifically, answers to the following questions were sought: (1) Is the hope of an adolescent with cystic fibrosis positively impac- ted by their perception of social support and health? (2) Does social support positively affect health perception in adolescents with cystic fibrosis?.

Fifty-nine adolescents between the ages of 12 and 23 answered a survey mailed to their homes, corresponding to a response rate of 49.6%. The questionnaire packets contained the Beck Hopelessness Scale, Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire, Ware General Health Rating Index, the Hope Scale by Erickson, Paige, & Post, as well as demographic questions.

Access to the names of the adolescents and their parents was provided by physicians at four CF Centers in Northern California (Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto; University of California, San Francisco; University of California, Davis; and Children's Hospital Medical Center, Oakland).

When the anticipated redundancy between the two measures of hope did not occur, two models of hope were examined: one with hopefulness as the outcome variable and one with hopelessness as the dependent variable. Model testing began with the regression analyses of the structural equations using graphic residual analysis to examine for assumption violations and to explore for independent.

variables not included in the original models, the following models were developed: (UNFORMATTED TABLE FOLLOWS).

SOCIAL SUPPORT.

NETWORK SIZE HOPEFULNESS (R2=.3608).

RELIGIOUS PARTICIPATION.

SOCIAL SUPPORT.

HEALTH PERCEPTION HOPELESSNESS (R2=.4929).

AGE AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL.

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Thus, only one of the research questions was fully supported by the 32 males and 27 females who responded to this survey; social support is the only variable to affect both hopefulness and hopelessness in adolescents with CF.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, Section: B, page: 2370.

Thesis (D.N.S.)--UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, 1986.

School code: 0034.