The Negative Influence of Families on Compliance

Strickland, R. G.; Aiston, J; Davidson, Jonathan

doi:10.1176/ps.32.5.349

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“…Other studies have indicated that poor affective involvement is associated with deterioration after stroke 29 and that healthy affective involvement is associated with adherence to treatment recommendations during a medical crisis 30 and in stroke specifically. 31 Preoccupation with the disabled family member to the exclusion of the needs of other family members interferes with the autonomy required for optimal adjustment. 28 Gaining information about home care may optimize involvement of the caregiver by promoting compliance and subsequently better family function.…”

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Family intervention after stroke: does counseling or education help?

Evans

Matlock

Bishop

et al. 1988

Stroke

173

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Two interventions for improving stroke caregiver knowledge, stabilizing family function, promoting patient adjustment, and enlisting the use of social resources after stroke were compared with routine medical and nursing care of stroke patients (n = 61) at a 440-bed Veterans Administration Medical Center. The education intervention (n = 64) consisted of classroom instruction for caregivers about basic stroke care principles. The counseling condition (n = 63) consisted of education plus seven follow-up problem-solving sessions with a social worker (for the caregiver). Six months and 1 year after the stroke, both interventions significantly improved caregiver knowledge and stabilized some aspects of family function better than routine care. Counseling was consistently more effective than education alone and resulted in better patient adjustment at 1 year. Neither intervention influenced the use of social resources.

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Family intervention after stroke: does counseling or education help?

Evans

Matlock

Bishop

et al. 1988

Stroke

173

139

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“…Compliance and non‐compliance with preventive and/or therapeutic medical regimens have each been linked to the presence of more social ties 82. Indeed, although significant others, such as a spouse or other family members, can be particularly important as models of appropriate behavior and normative influences, as well as exerting more direct control over dietary or medical regimens, they can also serve as models of inappropriate or non‐normative behaviors83 or as sources of discord and dissuasion regarding compliance behavior 84. Such factors may explain why men with larger social networks were found to exhibit poorer control of their diabetes (e.g., significant increases in glycosylated hemoglobin, cholesterol and triglycerides and similar trends for glucose and weight) at 18‐month follow‐up 73…”

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Social Environment Effects on Health and Aging

Seeman

Crimmins

2001

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

237

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This paper provides an overview of epidemiological and demographic research linking social characteristics of both individuals and communities to differences in both morbidity and mortality risks. Evidence is presented linking three broad aspects of the social environment to health—the network of personal social relationships within which most of us live our lives, individual socioeconomic status (SES), and community‐level social characteristics. Large and consistent bodies of literature from both epidemiology and demography provide clear evidence for the generally health‐promoting effects of personal social relationships and SES. The bulk of the evidence relates to mortality although both fields have begun to examine other health outcomes, including aspects of physical and cognitive functioning as well as disease outcomes. A smaller but growing body of community‐level data, reflecting both the socioeconomic/resource characteristics of these broader communities and, more specifically, social features of these environments, also point to health impacts from these more macro level social environment characteristics. Much remains to be elucidated, however, concerning the actual mechanisms through which something as complex and multifaceted as SES “gets under the skin.” This necessarily includes consideration of external characteristics of the environments (both physical and sociocultural) where people live and work, and individual characteristics, as well as possible interactions between these in producing the observed SES gradients in health and mortality. These questions concerning links between social environment conditions and health may be a particularly fruitful area of future collaboration, drawing on the shared interest of demographers and epidemiologists in understanding how different social conditions promote variation in distributions of better versus worse health outcomes within a population.

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