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This study conceptually and empirically examined two hope scales with a community-based sample of older adults. These findings suggest that the two hope scales used in this study measure Global Hope and Interactive Hope. However, these results also suggest unique characteristics of hope that should be incorporated into future studies of hope with older adults.
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Clinicians usually agree that hope helps older persons to cope with stressful life events and changes in their life, and that hope may even affect their health. However, little research has examined whether hope functions as a psychosocial factor in modifying the relationship between stress and health. Older adults experience many events, which may make them more vulnerable than younger persons to loss of hope. These events may involve changes in their health, roles, self-concept, social support, housing, and income. If we know how these events affect hope, we may be able to detect and avert lapses in hope among our older patients, and even shape interventions that enhance hope.
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In recent years, nurse researchers have given more attention to the role that hope plays in health and illness. While this research adds to the knowledge base about hope, that this knowledge may become too theoretical and difficult to apply in the clinical setting. Based on a study of hope conducted with community-based older adults, an analysis of the hope instruments used in this study, and ongoing clinical experiences, a guide for the clinical assessment of hope is proposed.
The purpose of this pilot study was to develop and test the Geropsychiatric Intervention Checklist (GPIC), a measure designed to quantify psychosocial nursing interventions provided to persons on a geropsychiatric inpatient unit (N = 48). Data were collected by nursing staff, using self-report methods. This pilot study lays the foundation for future research designed to examine the impact of nursing interventions on geropsychiatric inpatient outcomes.