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- Title
Depression and issues of control among elderly people in health care settings.
- Authors
Barder L; Slimmer L; LeSage J
- Abstract
This descriptive study investigated the relationship between both demographic characteristics and type of health care setting and elderly people's attributions for control, functional status, mood, type of helplessness, and perception of self-efficacy. Results of the study demonstrate that elderly people in long-term care settings are more vulnerable to experiencing learned helplessness and depression than elderly people in acute or rehabilitation settings. The findings indicate that the critical period for the development of learned helplessness and depression is for subjects with a length of stay of 7 weeks to 6 months. The study supports other research which concludes that depression in elderly people is better explained by the original learned helplessness theory rather than being related to attributions about the cause of loss of control.
- Subjects
MENTAL health of older people; MENTAL health services; HELPLESSNESS (Psychology) in old age
- Publication
Journal of Advanced Nursing (Wiley-Blackwell), 1994, Vol 20, Issue 4, p597
- ISSN
0309-2402
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2648.1994.20040597.x