Information, social support and anxiety before gastrointestinal endoscopy
Autor: | Paul van Schaik, Anna van Wersch, Judith Eberhardt, Paul Cann |
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Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Adolescent Anxiety Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Endoscopy Gastrointestinal Social support Cognition Cronbach's alpha Surveys and Questionnaires Preoperative Care medicine Humans Psychiatry Applied Psychology Aged Aged 80 and over Stressor Social Support General Medicine Health psychology Structured interview Female medicine.symptom Psychology |
Zdroj: | British journal of health psychology. 11(Pt 4) |
ISSN: | 1359-107X |
Popis: | Objectives. To examine Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) stress theory regarding the effects of the stress mediators information and perceived social support on anxiety (as the stress response) regarding gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy (as the stressor) in male and female patients of various age groups. Design. Non-experimental design. Methods. Structured interviews were conducted with 113 hospital out-patients about to undergo GI endoscopy. Participants indicated their perceptions of how much support and how much clear and useful information they had received from both their general practitioner (GP) and a patient information leaflet developed in collaboration with health psychologists as well as their perceptions of how much social support they had obtained from other patients, family and friends. Anxiety was measured with a population-specific trait and state adaptation of the Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS-A). Results. Psychometric exploration of the HADS-A revealed a single general anxiety factor. The reliability of this factor was high, with Cronbach's α = 0.91. The majority of the sample experienced high anxiety levels. Gender, but not age, differences emerged, showing females to be more anxious than males, F (1, 84) = 5.68, p |
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