TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of an intervention designed to improve patients' hospital experience.
AU - Holden, G.
AU - Speedling, E.
AU - Rosenberg, G.
PY - 1992/10
Y1 - 1992/10
N2 - The influence of a videotape, shown in a hospital admitting room, on patients' state anxiety and concerns about hospitalization was assessed in a preliminary study. For both state anxiety and specific concerns regarding hospitalization the pretest scores on each variable accounted for the preponderance of the variance in the posttest scores. In both instances, the intervention and the interaction of the intervention with the pretest scores accounted for less than 1% of variance in the outcome. While finding small effects to be significant for such a small sample (N = 93) is unlikely, the sample size was adequate to detect medium to large effects. More important was the fact that 73.33% of the videotape intervention group indicated that they did not watch the video, which leads us to the conclusion that this intervention as tested is not worthwhile.
AB - The influence of a videotape, shown in a hospital admitting room, on patients' state anxiety and concerns about hospitalization was assessed in a preliminary study. For both state anxiety and specific concerns regarding hospitalization the pretest scores on each variable accounted for the preponderance of the variance in the posttest scores. In both instances, the intervention and the interaction of the intervention with the pretest scores accounted for less than 1% of variance in the outcome. While finding small effects to be significant for such a small sample (N = 93) is unlikely, the sample size was adequate to detect medium to large effects. More important was the fact that 73.33% of the videotape intervention group indicated that they did not watch the video, which leads us to the conclusion that this intervention as tested is not worthwhile.
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U2 - 10.2466/pr0.1992.71.2.547
DO - 10.2466/pr0.1992.71.2.547
M3 - Article
C2 - 1410114
AN - SCOPUS:0026933391
SN - 0033-2941
VL - 71
SP - 547
EP - 550
JO - Psychological reports
JF - Psychological reports
IS - 2
ER -