Psychological stress: Psychoanalytic and behavioral studies of surgical patients.

Janis, Irving L.

doi:10.1037/11191-000

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“…The goals of information giving are to promote a sense of mastery by enabling the child/parent to anticipate events, to facilitate child and parent understanding of the meaning/ purpose of these events, and to correct misinformation. Information giving is congruent with information seeking as a dominant coping strategy for both adults and children 41,66 and is enhanced by the provision of sensory descriptions. 67,68 It is important to remember that some parents and children cope by avoidance and may experience increased anxiety when health information is provided.…”

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Recommendations for Preparing Children and Adolescents for Invasive Cardiac Procedures

Leroy¹,

Elixson²,

O′Brien³

et al. 2003

Circulation

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Section: Methods For Procedures Preparation (See Appendices B and C)mentioning

confidence: 98%

Recommendations for Preparing Children and Adolescents for Invasive Cardiac Procedures

Leroy¹,

Elixson²,

O′Brien³

et al. 2003

Circulation

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“…Janis (1958) has remarked that response to victimisation is an arousal of deeper layers of the personality and a return to earlier childhood patterns of adaptation; a phenomenon observed in some spinal cord patients (Guttmann, 1976).…”

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Coping and adaptation following acute spinal cord injury: a theoretical analysis

Bracken

Shepard

1980

Spinal Cord

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Abstract. Coping and adaptation theory is used to synthesise existing data concerning psychological recovery from acute spinal cord injury. Psychological reactions to spinal cord trauma are similar to those of mourning and other situations of severe loss. Each reaction plays a specific role in fostering or hindering recovery depending upon when it occurs. Premorbid personality and the influence of significant others play a central role in coping with injury. These factors partly explain why some patients cope better than others to equally serious disability. A critique of research methodologies and sug gestions for new studies are provided.

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“…In the present investigation those professing low anxiety initially underwent considerable disruption subsequently -increased anxiety, more disruption in their activity levels, and more discomfort during the ICR. Which level of anxiety is more adaptive in the context of cancer and treatment-specific anxiety remains to be determined, although Janis (1958) much earlier suggested more complicated post-operative outcomes for those professing low pretreatment anxiety. While the present data require replication due to the small sample sizes when analyzing the factor of Pre-treatment Anxiety Level, they may be illustrative of unique psychological response patterns of individuals such as cancer patients who are under extraordinarily stressful life conditions or chronic threats.…”

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Anxiety and cancer treatment: Response to stressful radiotherapy.

Andersen¹,

Karlsson²,

Anderson³

et al. 1984

Health Psychology

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Previous research with individuals undergoing surgery or diagnostic procedures provided a conceptual framework for analysis of radiation therapy, a common form of cancer treatment. The present investigation was designed to document the magnitude of anxiety patients experience in response to one particularly stressful form of radiation treatment. In addition, the change in anxiety responses with repeated exposures and individual differences among patients that may affect their adjustment were explored. In Part 1, gynecologic cancer patients receiving their first internal radiotherapy application were studied. As the time for treatment neared, subjective and physiologic indicants of anxiety and distress among the patients significantly increased. By 24 hours posttreatment, anxiety for all patients remained elevated. These post-treatment data are convergent with other investigations of post-treatment distress among cancer patients, but contrast with data obtained from those receiving treatment for benign conditions. A subset of the women who required two applications of radiotherapy participated in Part 2. These patients continued to respond negatively during the second treatment. Data on individual differences in anxiety responses (i.e., low vs. high anxiety) were obtained in both investigations and suggest that those with low levels of pre-treatment anxiety experience considerable disruption post-treatment.Psychological cancer research has recently focused on the predictors of illness adjustment (e.g., Bloom, 1982), areas of life change following diagnosis and treatment (e.g., Andersen & Hacker, 1983), and anxiety in response to cancer surgery or chemotherapy (e.g., Gottesman & Lewis, 1982;Redd & Andrykowski, 1982). Despite radiation being a primary treatment modality (approximately 350,000 patients are treated annually), it has received little psychologic study. Clinical descriptions of patient reactions are available (Peck & Boland, 1977;Rotman, Rogow, DeLeon, & Heskel, 1977;Smith & McNamara, 1977;Welch, 1980;Yonke, 1967), and they have noted fears of the treatment (e.g., being burned or causing sickness, sterility, or even cancer) and vast individual differences among patients in their psychological reaction to the treatment have been recently found (Andersen & Tewfik, in press).Previous research with individuals undergoing other forms of medical treatment, surgery, or stressful diagnostic procedures, provided a conceptual framework for analysis of radiotherapy. In this research different patterns of anxiety response data have been evidenced, 1 but a decline in the magnitude of patients' self-reported anxiety from pre-to post-treatment is most common (e.g., Cohen & Lazarus, 1973;Johnson, Dabbs, & Leventhal, 1970;Johnson, Leventhal & Copyright © 1984, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Requests for reprints should be sent to Barbara L. Andersen, Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. 1 Early research examining surgery and recovery experiences from the patient's persp...

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Psychological stress: Psychoanalytic and behavioral studies of surgical patients.

Cited by 270 publications

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Recommendations for Preparing Children and Adolescents for Invasive Cardiac Procedures

Recommendations for Preparing Children and Adolescents for Invasive Cardiac Procedures

Coping and adaptation following acute spinal cord injury: a theoretical analysis

Anxiety and cancer treatment: Response to stressful radiotherapy.

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