TAILIEUCHUNG - Stress symptoms and coping strategies in healthy elderly subjects

Almost 75 percent of the elderly (age 65 and over) have at least one chronic About 50 percent have at least two chronic Chronic conditions can lead to severe and immediate disabilities, such as hip fractures and stroke, as well as progressive disability that slowly erodes the ability of elderly people to care for According to AHRQ’s 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS),a about percent of people age 65 and over— million elderly Americans—require assistance with bathing, dressing, preparing meals, or The costs associated with treating the elderly with chronic conditions are high and continuing to grow. These costs are borne by everyone—Federal and State governments, families, and. | Stress symptoms and coping strategies in healthy elderly subjects SINTOMAS DE ESTRESSE E ESTRATÉGIAS DE COPING EM IDOSOS SAUDÁVEIS SÍNTOMAS DE ESTRÉS Y ESTRATEGIAS DE COPING EN ANCIANOS SALUDABLES Juliana Nery de Souza-Talarico1 Paulo Caramelli2 Ricardo Nitrini3 Eliane Corrêa Chaves4 ABSTRACT Elderly subjects may present stress symptoms due to physical psychological and social changes during aging process. The aim of this study was to identify stress symptoms in elderly subjects and the coping strategies they used verifying the relationship between these variables. The Stress Symptoms List SSL and the Jalowiec Coping Scale were administered to 41 healthy elderly subjects. Elderly subjects presented stress symptoms with a mean score of . Although problem-focused coping was predominantly observed no significant difference was observed between mean SSL scores among elderly subjects who used problem-focused or emotion-focused coping. Although elderly subjects mainly elected problem-focused coping stress intensity was independent of the coping style showing that both problem-and emotion-focused coping are associated with similar stress levels. KEY WORDS Stress. Aged. Adaptation psychological. RESUMO Idosos podem manifestar sintomas de es-tresse em decorrência das mudanẹas bio-psicossociais do envelhecimento. O objeti-vo deste estudo foi identificar sintomas de estresse em idosos e o estilo de coping uti-lizado por eles verificando a relaẹão entre estas variáveis. Foram aplicados a Lista de Sintomas de Stress LSS e o Inventário de Coping de Jalowiec em 41 idosos saudá-veis. Os idosos apresentaram sintomas de estresse com intensidade media de pontos. Observou-se predomínio do coping focado no problema porém não houve di-ferenẹa significativa entre as medias dos escores do LSS entre os indivíduos que uti-lizaram coping focado no problema ou na emoẹão p . Neste estudo embora os idosos tendessem a eleger o coping focado no problema a intensidade dos sin-tomas

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