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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Social Support and Mental Health for Terminally Ill Patients and Their Caregivers.

Social Support and Mental Health for Terminally Ill Patients and Their Caregivers.

Damm, Kathryn

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Aging & Elder Care

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ISBN10: 1243451505
ISBN13: 9781243451507
Publisher: Proquest Umi Dissertation Pub
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.31 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Herbst-Damm and Kulik (2005) found that hospice patients who received volunteer support visits lived longer than those who did not. The primary purposes of this research were to (a) replicate these findings; (b) identify predictors of desire for a volunteer; (c) assess the impact of support from volunteer visits on patient and caregiver well-being; and (d) to examine mechanisms through which volunteer support may influence well-being and survival. A large scale retrospective study (n=15,021) and smaller prospective study with in-depth interviews (n=79) both confirm that patients who received support in the form of a hospice volunteer lived significantly longer than those who did not. Study 2 was also able to show a significant reduction in pain for those who had volunteer support versus those without support. No major differences were detected among those who requested volunteers and those who did not at the outset of care, suggesting that baseline health and psychological differences do not explain the support-survival relationship. Implications are discussed.

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