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A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents
Depression is common among older persons. An experimental study was undertaken to test the impact of a four-week hope program on depressed nursing home residents. Residents aged 65 or older, who met the criteria for this pilot study and agreed to participate, were randomly assigned to (a) an interve...
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2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168928/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/676351 |
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author | Wilson, Donna M. Marin, Alexandra Bhardwaj, Param Lichlyter, Bonnie Thurston, Amy Mohankumar, Deepthi |
author_facet | Wilson, Donna M. Marin, Alexandra Bhardwaj, Param Lichlyter, Bonnie Thurston, Amy Mohankumar, Deepthi |
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description | Depression is common among older persons. An experimental study was undertaken to test the impact of a four-week hope program on depressed nursing home residents. Residents aged 65 or older, who met the criteria for this pilot study and agreed to participate, were randomly assigned to (a) an intervention group, and provided with weekday hope interventions mainly involving positive messages and pictures or (b) a modified control group, and provided with a friendly weekday greeting. The structured hope intervention was not proven effective for reducing depression or raising hope. Instead, a significant reduction in depression among the control subjects was found, as well as a nonsignificant increase in their level of hope. Although these findings suggest friendly visitors may be a more efficacious nonpharmacological approach for reducing depression, further investigations are needed to confirm this and to explore the impact of other hope interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-31689282011-10-12 A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents Wilson, Donna M. Marin, Alexandra Bhardwaj, Param Lichlyter, Bonnie Thurston, Amy Mohankumar, Deepthi Nurs Res Pract Research Article Depression is common among older persons. An experimental study was undertaken to test the impact of a four-week hope program on depressed nursing home residents. Residents aged 65 or older, who met the criteria for this pilot study and agreed to participate, were randomly assigned to (a) an intervention group, and provided with weekday hope interventions mainly involving positive messages and pictures or (b) a modified control group, and provided with a friendly weekday greeting. The structured hope intervention was not proven effective for reducing depression or raising hope. Instead, a significant reduction in depression among the control subjects was found, as well as a nonsignificant increase in their level of hope. Although these findings suggest friendly visitors may be a more efficacious nonpharmacological approach for reducing depression, further investigations are needed to confirm this and to explore the impact of other hope interventions. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3168928/ /pubmed/21994812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/676351 Text en Copyright © 2010 Donna M. Wilson et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wilson, Donna M. Marin, Alexandra Bhardwaj, Param Lichlyter, Bonnie Thurston, Amy Mohankumar, Deepthi A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents |
title | A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents |
title_full | A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents |
title_fullStr | A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents |
title_full_unstemmed | A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents |
title_short | A Hope Intervention Compared to Friendly Visitors as a Technique to Reduce Depression among Older Nursing Home Residents |
title_sort | hope intervention compared to friendly visitors as a technique to reduce depression among older nursing home residents |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168928/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/676351 |
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