Hospitals or doctor’s appointments are environments that cause anxiety for a lot of people. Medical procedures can therefore be stressful for patients, thus potentially affecting wound healing and adjustment during recovery. Hence, the assessment of how individuals cope with stressful medical procedures is important. Focusing on vigilant and cognitive avoidant coping strategies, we investigate the emotional and biological reaction to anxiety in diverse medical settings with various groups of patients.
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Medical treatment can be stressful for patients, thus potentially affecting wound healing and adjustment during recovery. Hence, the assessment of how individuals cope with stressful medical procedures is important. Cooperating with Prof. Andreas Schwerdtfeger, Prof. Michael Hock and Mag. Eva-Maria Rathner we constructed and empirically evaluated a coping inventory focusing on medical settings.The ABI-MS is based on the model of coping modes and aims to assess vigilant and cognitive avoidant cop…
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Looking at the number of surgeries performed each year in Germany, it seems that coping with medical procedures is becoming a more important research field in health psychology. Unfortunately the scope of efficient coping strategies within the medical setting is limited. Hence, the use of repressive coping strategies seems to be quite frequent. Connected to repressive coping, research groups described the phenomena of the verbal autonomic response dissociation (shortly known as VARD). In t…
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A laboratory medical anamnesis interview elicits psychological and physiological arousal
In: Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress 25 (2022), p. 57 - 66
ISSN: 1025-3890
DOI: 10.1080/10253890.2021.2012145 - , , , :
Das Angstbewältigungsinventar für medizinische Situationen (ABI-MS)
In: Diagnostica 65 (2019), p. 253-265
ISSN: 0012-1924
DOI: 10.1026/0012-1924/a000233