How Older Female Spouses Cope with Partners’ Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Joint Authors
Marnocha, Suzanne
Marnocha, Mark
Source
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-03-24
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This research sought to better understand how older female spouses cope with a partner’s coronary artery bypass graft surgery and to explore coping’s relationships with life-change stress, cognitive appraisal, resilience, social support, and aspects of spouse’s surgery.
A sample of 96 women, aged from 55 to 81 years, completed surveys after their partner’s surgery.
Folkman and Lazarus’ ways of coping (WCQ) scales yielded two factors in this sample—reactive coping and adaptive coping.
Reactive coping, including more emotion-focused ways of coping from the WCQ, was associated only with more time spent anticipating spouses’ surgeries.
Women described the greatest use of ways of coping labeled adaptive, which in turn had significant relationships with greater resilience, social support, and positive appraisal of the surgical experience.
Stepwise multiple regression found greater resilience, more frequent religious participation, and fewer children to be distinct predictors of adaptive coping.
Nursing staff are encouraged to accept and normalize reactive coping, while facilitating adaptive coping with surgical stresses.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Marnocha, Suzanne& Marnocha, Mark. 2013. How Older Female Spouses Cope with Partners’ Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Nursing Research and Practice،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-508383
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Marnocha, Suzanne& Marnocha, Mark. How Older Female Spouses Cope with Partners’ Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Nursing Research and Practice No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-508383
American Medical Association (AMA)
Marnocha, Suzanne& Marnocha, Mark. How Older Female Spouses Cope with Partners’ Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Nursing Research and Practice. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-508383
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-508383