FILMED MODELING TO FACILITATE COPING IN NEWLY ADMITTED NURSING HOME RESIDENTS.
Contributors: Washington State University.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Psychology, Clinical.; Gerontology.
Description: Relocation and admission to a nursing home is often a difficult, even traumatic experience for elders and their families. Yet these elders have managed to cope at least somewhat effectively for 60+ years. The difficulty seems to arise when existing coping resources are slow to mobilize. The prediction of this study was that coping can be facilitated through the use of filmed modeling, that film based on the literature on coping and psychological interventions in medical procedures.

A video tape was produced and shown to 14 new residents with physiological signs and subjective psychological symptoms measured before, at about three weeks, and about two months later. A placebo film group and a no film group were utilized with 14 and 9 subjects respectively.

Results show that the treatment film did not significantly enhance or speed coping as measured by the dependent variables. An unexpected finding was that residents with more relatives were more dysfunctional and had more difficulty coping. It is suggested that a more vigorous, personalized intervention perhaps utilizing the film as a discussion stimulus, would be an effective means of easing the transition to the nursing home. Training families to facilitate their elder's own coping efforts would also appear to be a fruitful approach.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-03, Section: B, page: 1121.

Thesis (PH.D.)--WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, 1988.

School code: 0251.