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The Gerontologist, Vol 30, Issue 4 522-528, Copyright © 1990 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Reminiscence interviews as stress management interventions for older patients undergoing surgery

BD Rybarczyk and SM Auerbach
Department of Psychology and Social Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612.

A standard reminiscence interview and one that focused on successfully met challenges reduced state anxiety and enhanced coping self-efficacy when measured against both attention-placebo and no-intervention control groups in a sample of 104 elderly male patients facing surgery. Age-peer interviewers did not elicit significantly greater overall reductions in state anxiety or increases in coping self-efficacy scores than younger interviewers (nonpeers), but did produce significantly higher coping self-efficacy scores than nonpeers when administering the challenge reminiscence interview.


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