Preparation for a stressful medical procedure: Effect of amount of stimulus preexposure and coping style.

Shipley, Robert H.; Butt, James H.; Horwitz, Bruce H.; Farbry, John E.

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.46.3.499

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“…Taylor and Lobel (1989) concluded that seeing positive comparisons during stressful situations might help some patients cope more effectively. Shipley et al (1978Shipley et al ( , 1979, Kempe (1987), Tongue and Stanley (1991), Heinen and Melodie (1992) and all concluded viewing a videotaped presentation prior to an aversive medical event to be of benefit to some patients. It helped to reduce the fear associated with the unknown elements, was cheap to run and did not require the patient to have a certain level of literacy skill, as with written information.…”

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Psychological preparation for patients undergoing day surgery

Mitchell

2000

Ambulatory Surgery

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“…For a number of years it has been known that admission to hospital, especially for surgical intervention, can cause considerable apprehension (Shipley et al 1978, Pickett and Clum 1982, Ridgeway and Mathews 1982.…”

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Psychological preparation for patients undergoing day surgery

Mitchell

2000

Ambulatory Surgery

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“…Then they were suddenly overwhelmed by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms. People who control their feelings in this manner have been described as repressors (Shipley, Butt, Horowitz, & Fabry, 1978). Because they were not able to elicit anxiety, they could not practice the behavioral techniques, especially systematic desensitization and the self-control triad, effectively.…”

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Behavioral treatment of debilitating test anxiety among medical students

Powell

2004

J Clin Psychol

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This article presents and illustrates the behavioral treatment of medical students and physicians whose debilitating test anxiety was associated with their failure to pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) or a specialty board test. Seventy-two medical trainees were treated consecutively because of at least one failure to pass these professional examinations. Behavioral treatment focused on their anxiety, which resulted in the "dual deficits" of poor test preparation, poor test performance, or both. Treatment featured progressive muscle relaxation, systematic desensitization, the self-control triad, behavioral rehearsal, and a psychoeducational component. Ninety-three percent of the clients eventually passed the examination while in treatment. Pass rates for this group were substantially higher than the national average for repeat USMLE test takers. Limitations of this treatment method are that it seemed too elaborate for some medical trainees and was less effective with those who had difficulty evoking anxiety.

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“…It has been widely used in studies of cardiac dis ease and of transient anxiety induced by experimental procedures and surgery [32][33][34][35].…”

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The Perception of Cardiac Activity in Medical Outpatients

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This study compared several measures of cardiac perception and related them to patient’ spontaneous reports of palpitations. One hundred and forty-five ambulatory patients referred for Holter monitoring for the evaluation of palpitations were compared with 70 asymptomatic nonpatients. Reports of palpitations during monitoring were compared with the ECG to determine whether they coincided with an arrhythmia. Subjects also completed a heartbeat detection task to determine whether they were accurately aware of cardiac systole while at rest. 20.7% of palpitation patients and 4.7% of asymptomatic controls demonstrated an accurate awareness of resting heartbeat (p = 0.01). Performance was unrelated to bodily amplification, somatization, hypochondriacal symptoms, ECG findings, or psychiatric morbidity. 34.3% of palpitation patients reported symptoms that consistently coincided with arrhythmias on ECG. These accurate patients had significantly lower levels of amplification, somatization, hypochondriacal symptoms, and psychiatric morbidity. Accuracy of symptom reporting and accuracy of heartbeat awareness were not statistically associated. Although accurate awareness of resting heartbeat appears to be unrelated to medical experiences and psychiatric status, the accurate perception of arrhythmias during daily activity is inversely correlated with clinical variables such as somatization and psychiatric distress.

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Preparation for a stressful medical procedure: Effect of amount of stimulus preexposure and coping style.

Cited by 137 publications

References 22 publications

Psychological preparation for patients undergoing day surgery

Psychological preparation for patients undergoing day surgery

Behavioral treatment of debilitating test anxiety among medical students

The Perception of Cardiac Activity in Medical Outpatients

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