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Laughter Therapy And Coping Strategies For Dementia Patient Caregivers, Edith Ugwu
Laughter Therapy And Coping Strategies For Dementia Patient Caregivers, Edith Ugwu
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The purpose of this research was to address a gap in the literature concerning the experiences of dementia caregivers who use laughter therapy as a coping strategy to manage their caregiving stress. Dementia caregiving involves high levels of stress, depression, and anxiety, which can cause both psychological and physical health problems for caregivers. It is, therefore, critical to identify effective coping strategies to mitigate caregiving stress. Laughter therapy is an inexpensive and readily available coping strategy that can help manage this stress. The current study used a phenomenological qualitative approach to address the research question. The transactional model of stress …
Nurses’ Social Distancing Behaviors Toward Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder, Nicole York
Nurses’ Social Distancing Behaviors Toward Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder, Nicole York
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Nurses often fear interacting with patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and use self-preservation distancing strategies that can exacerbate the BPD patient’s fear of abandonment, paranoia, self-harm, and relational conflict. Prior research identified individual predictors of nurses’ social distancing. This study used multivariable and multivariate correlational profiles of fear of violence and BPD bias that influence distance, reassessing, and constructive coping. Guided by social cognitive and appraisal transaction theories, data were collected from 113 nurses in a northwestern U.S. state on measures of interpersonal stress coping, attitudinal dispositions, perceived prevention of violence, perceived likelihood of future violence, and perceived …