Eleanor Palo Stoller
Biographic Data
| ID | 145907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Palo Stoller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor Palo |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoller |
| SIGNATURE | STOLLER E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Plattsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Calling the Doctor: A Qualitative Study of Patient-Initiated Physician Consultation Among Rural Older Adults
Objectives: Guided by Leventhal’s self-regulatory model and Cockerham’s theory of health lifestyles, we explore two questions regarding physician consultation among elderly rural adults: What symptom characteristics prompt patient-initiated physician consultation? Do participants’ accounts of responses to symptoms, including the decision to consult a physician, incorporate descriptions of change over time? Method: We analyze data from semistructu…
Older Adults’ Self-Management of Daily Symptoms: Complementary Therapies, Self-Care, and Medical Care
In considering the percentage of individuals who use a therapy and the frequency with which therapies are used, this analysis adds a new dimension to understanding how older adults manage daily symptoms. Older adults are selective in their use of health self-management
Daily Use of Complementary and Other Therapies for Symptoms Among Older Adults: Study Design and Illustrative Results
The daily-diary design provides detailed information for delineating how elders include complementary and other therapies in their health self-management
Lay Management of Chronic Disease: A Qualitative Study of Living with Hepatitis C Infection
Results underscore the diversity of strategies for living with a disease characterized by uncertain prognosis and variable expression of symptoms
Alcohol Consumption Decisions Among Nonabusing Drinkers Diagnosed with Hepatitis C: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
Most studies of decisions to curtail alcohol consumption reflect experiences of abusing drinkers. We employ an exploratory sequential research design to explore the applicability of this research to the experience of nonabusing drinkers advised to curtail alcohol consumption after a Hepatitis C diagnosis. A qualitative component identified 17 new decision factors not reflected in an inventory of factors based on synthesis of existing scales. We t…
The Structure and Function of Frail Male Veterans' Informal Networks
Findings illustrate not only the role women play as providers of the majority of informal care to veterans but also the substantial role adult sons have in providing support to their fathers. Many veterans are at risk of institutionalization by having no one to provide instrumental support and health monitoring
Strategies Resident-Physicians Use to Manage Sleep Loss and Fatigue
Our purpose is to examine strategies or countermeasures resident-physicians used in dealing with the effects of sleep loss and fatigue during residency training. A total of 149 residents across five sites and six specialty areas were recruited for the study. Focus groups consisted of an average of 7 individuals in the same year of training and residency program, and included 60 interns and 89 senior residents. Trained moderators conducted focus g…
The pivotal role of cardiac self-care in treatment timing
Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes
In response to the serious toll diabetes takes on health and resources, researchers increasingly are examining physical and psychological pathways that affect and are affected by diabetes, including stress. Although biomedical researchers and practitioners are beginning to recognize the association between stress and diabetes onset and management, laypersons have long-standing and extensive insights into the multiple ways in which stress is assoc…
The Structure of Lay Consultation Networks: Managing Illness in Community Settings
Results reaffirmed the importance of gender in structuring networks in late life. The low prevalence of friends supports Cartensen's Selectivity Theory
Long-Term Impact of Preventive Proactivity on Quality of Life of the Old-Old
OBJECTIVE: This research explored the long-term benefits of engaging in proactive health promotion efforts among old-old residents of Sunbelt retirement communities to empirically test components of the Preventive and Corrective Proactivity (PCP) Model of Successful Aging. Specifically, we examined the contributions of exercise, tobacco use, moderate alcohol use, and annual medical checkups to multidimensional quality of life indicators of physic…
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
Explaining Pathways of Care Taken by Elderly People: An Analysis of Responses to Illness Symptoms
This paper documents the pathways elderly people follow in managing illness symptoms. Illness behavior is conceptualized as a series of actions or decisions that occur over time in varying permutations or combinations. Data were collected through personal interviews completed by a sample of older people managing their health in community settings in upstate New York. Respondents also completed three weeks of health diaries. Multiple logistic regr…
Sauna, Sisu and Sibelius: Ethnic Identity Among Finnish Americans
Symptom Reporting During Physician Consultation: Results of a Health Diary Study
Most studies of physician consultation focus on decisions to contact health care providers. In this article, the authors examine decisions regarding which symptoms to report once people contact physicians. Data for the analysis were gathered through interviews and health diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 elderly people, based on a subsample of 152 respondents who consulted physicians during the 3-week reporting period. A qualitativ…
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
The Impact of Symptom Interpretation on Physician Utilization
This article explores physician consultation decisions among a sample of elderly people living in community settings. The analysis integrates the insights of research on illness behavior, particularly symptom interpretation and lay consultation, with previous specifications of the Health Behavior Model. Data were gathered through personal interviews and health diaries completed on a daily basis for 21 consecutive days by a probability sample of o…
Older People??s Recommendations for Treating Symptoms: Repertoires of Lay Knowledge About Disease
This paper explores the content of older people's repertoires of lay knowledge regarding treatment strategies for commonly occurring symptoms. Data were collected through in-depth personal interviews in a sample of people 65 years and older living in community settings and managing their own health. Respondents mentioned a total of 657 specific treatment recommendations for 15 symptoms. Although very few mentioned treatments that were uniformly h…
Interpretations of Symptoms by Older People: A Health Diary Study of Illness Behavior
This article examines interpretations of symptoms experienced by a probability sample of older people living in community settings. Four assessments were included: seriousness, pain or discomfort, interference with desired activities, and causal attributions. Data were collected through structured interviews and daily diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 older people living in a four-county region of upstate New York. Although few res…
Gender and the organization of lay health care: A socialist-feminist perspective
Self-Care Responses to Symptoms by Older People: A Health Diary Study of Illness Behavior
Although studies of illness behavior have concentrated on utilization of formal services, recent research has highlighted the importance of lay care. In this article, patterns of self-treatment of symptoms among a sample of older people living in community settings are explored. Data were collected through personal interviews and health diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 elderly people. A majority of respondents managed most symptom…
Patterns of Illness Behavior Among Rural Elderly: Preliminary Results of a Health Diary Study
This paper summarizes the responses of rural elderly people to a variety of symptoms experienced during a three‐week period. Responses to symptoms included causal attributions, consultation patterns, and intervention strategies. Data recorded in diaries during a three‐week period highlight the importance of lay care in the illnesses of older people. Most symptoms were managed by older respondents themselves. When symptoms were discussed with some…
Prescribed and Over-the-Counter Medicine Use By the Ambulatory Elderly
This article examines use of prescription and over-the-counter drugs among a linear probability sample of ambulatory elderly. As previous research has shown, health status indicators are better predictors of use of prescription than nonprescription medications. The analysis suggests that self-medication with over-the-counter drugs may be a first step in illness behavior, rather than a substitute for physician consultation. These preparations are …
Exchange Patterns in the Informal Support Networks of the Elderly: The Impact of Reciprocity on Morale
Patterns of exchange of assistance within the informal helping networks of the elderly are examined through analysis of interviews with a probability sample of 753 noninstitutionalized older persons. Most elders are involved in some type of exchange, although the proportion reporting no exchange increases as one moves from children to other relatives to friends or neighbors. Older persons who receive help usually reciprocate in some way, with the…
Self-Assessments of Health by the Elderly: The Impact of Informal Assistance
This paper uses path analysis to explore the impact of informal networks on the relationship between health status indicators and self-assessments of health by the elderly. Data were obtained through personal interviews with a probability sample of 753 noninstitutionalized older persons and with their informal helpers. Consistent with previous research, the data suggest that both sex and age are significant in explaining different ratings by elde…
Parental Caregiving by Adult Children
Recent research in social gerontology has highlighted the importance of the family, particularly adult daughters, as caregivers for the impaired and chronically ill communitybased elderly. This paper explores the impact of employment and competing familial responsibilities on the level of assistance provided to elderly parents by adult children. Data were collected through personal interviews with a probability sample of noninstitutionalized elde…
Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes
In response to the serious toll diabetes takes on health and resources, researchers increasingly are examining physical and psychological pathways that affect and are affected by diabetes, including stress. Although biomedical researchers and practitioners are beginning to recognize the association between stress and diabetes onset and management, laypersons have long-standing and extensive insights into the multiple ways in which stress is assoc…
Exchange Patterns in the Informal Support Networks of the Elderly: The Impact of Reciprocity on Morale
Patterns of exchange of assistance within the informal helping networks of the elderly are examined through analysis of interviews with a probability sample of 753 noninstitutionalized older persons. Most elders are involved in some type of exchange, although the proportion reporting no exchange increases as one moves from children to other relatives to friends or neighbors. Older persons who receive help usually reciprocate in some way, with the…
Sauna, Sisu and Sibelius: Ethnic Identity Among Finnish Americans
Gender and the organization of lay health care: A socialist-feminist perspective
Interpretations of Symptoms by Older People: A Health Diary Study of Illness Behavior
This article examines interpretations of symptoms experienced by a probability sample of older people living in community settings. Four assessments were included: seriousness, pain or discomfort, interference with desired activities, and causal attributions. Data were collected through structured interviews and daily diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 older people living in a four-county region of upstate New York. Although few res…
Self-Assessments of Health by the Elderly: The Impact of Informal Assistance
This paper uses path analysis to explore the impact of informal networks on the relationship between health status indicators and self-assessments of health by the elderly. Data were obtained through personal interviews with a probability sample of 753 noninstitutionalized older persons and with their informal helpers. Consistent with previous research, the data suggest that both sex and age are significant in explaining different ratings by elde…
The Impact of Symptom Interpretation on Physician Utilization
This article explores physician consultation decisions among a sample of elderly people living in community settings. The analysis integrates the insights of research on illness behavior, particularly symptom interpretation and lay consultation, with previous specifications of the Health Behavior Model. Data were gathered through personal interviews and health diaries completed on a daily basis for 21 consecutive days by a probability sample of o…
Explaining Pathways of Care Taken by Elderly People: An Analysis of Responses to Illness Symptoms
This paper documents the pathways elderly people follow in managing illness symptoms. Illness behavior is conceptualized as a series of actions or decisions that occur over time in varying permutations or combinations. Data were collected through personal interviews completed by a sample of older people managing their health in community settings in upstate New York. Respondents also completed three weeks of health diaries. Multiple logistic regr…
Symptom Reporting During Physician Consultation: Results of a Health Diary Study
Most studies of physician consultation focus on decisions to contact health care providers. In this article, the authors examine decisions regarding which symptoms to report once people contact physicians. Data for the analysis were gathered through interviews and health diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 elderly people, based on a subsample of 152 respondents who consulted physicians during the 3-week reporting period. A qualitativ…
The Structure of Lay Consultation Networks: Managing Illness in Community Settings
Results reaffirmed the importance of gender in structuring networks in late life. The low prevalence of friends supports Cartensen's Selectivity Theory
Calling the Doctor: A Qualitative Study of Patient-Initiated Physician Consultation Among Rural Older Adults
Objectives: Guided by Leventhal’s self-regulatory model and Cockerham’s theory of health lifestyles, we explore two questions regarding physician consultation among elderly rural adults: What symptom characteristics prompt patient-initiated physician consultation? Do participants’ accounts of responses to symptoms, including the decision to consult a physician, incorporate descriptions of change over time? Method: We analyze data from semistructu…
Daily Use of Complementary and Other Therapies for Symptoms Among Older Adults: Study Design and Illustrative Results
The daily-diary design provides detailed information for delineating how elders include complementary and other therapies in their health self-management
Alcohol Consumption Decisions Among Nonabusing Drinkers Diagnosed with Hepatitis C: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
Most studies of decisions to curtail alcohol consumption reflect experiences of abusing drinkers. We employ an exploratory sequential research design to explore the applicability of this research to the experience of nonabusing drinkers advised to curtail alcohol consumption after a Hepatitis C diagnosis. A qualitative component identified 17 new decision factors not reflected in an inventory of factors based on synthesis of existing scales. We t…
The Structure and Function of Frail Male Veterans' Informal Networks
Findings illustrate not only the role women play as providers of the majority of informal care to veterans but also the substantial role adult sons have in providing support to their fathers. Many veterans are at risk of institutionalization by having no one to provide instrumental support and health monitoring
The pivotal role of cardiac self-care in treatment timing
Older Adults’ Self-Management of Daily Symptoms: Complementary Therapies, Self-Care, and Medical Care
In considering the percentage of individuals who use a therapy and the frequency with which therapies are used, this analysis adds a new dimension to understanding how older adults manage daily symptoms. Older adults are selective in their use of health self-management
The Impact of Death-Related Fears on Attitudes of Nurses in a Hospital Work Setting
This paper examines the impact of death-related fears on the responses of RNs and LPNs employed in a general hospital to descriptions of work situations involving dying and death. Results were based on analysis of responses to a self-administered questionnaire. Four components of death-related fears were measured using the subscales developed by David Lester. Death-related fears were significant in predicting responses to situations where avoidan…
Patterns of Physician Utilization by the Elderly: A Multivariate Analysis
The conceptual approach developed by Andersen is applied when explaining physician utilization by noninstitutionalized elderly persons. Multiple regression techniques are used to assess the impact of objective and subjective need, financial resources, availability and accessibility of services, attitudes toward health and medical care, and social structural and demographic characteristics on physician contact and volume of visits. Data were colle…
Parental Caregiving by Adult Children
Recent research in social gerontology has highlighted the importance of the family, particularly adult daughters, as caregivers for the impaired and chronically ill communitybased elderly. This paper explores the impact of employment and competing familial responsibilities on the level of assistance provided to elderly parents by adult children. Data were collected through personal interviews with a probability sample of noninstitutionalized elde…
Self-Assessments of Health by the Elderly: The Impact of Informal Assistance
This paper uses path analysis to explore the impact of informal networks on the relationship between health status indicators and self-assessments of health by the elderly. Data were obtained through personal interviews with a probability sample of 753 noninstitutionalized older persons and with their informal helpers. Consistent with previous research, the data suggest that both sex and age are significant in explaining different ratings by elde…
Exchange Patterns in the Informal Support Networks of the Elderly: The Impact of Reciprocity on Morale
Patterns of exchange of assistance within the informal helping networks of the elderly are examined through analysis of interviews with a probability sample of 753 noninstitutionalized older persons. Most elders are involved in some type of exchange, although the proportion reporting no exchange increases as one moves from children to other relatives to friends or neighbors. Older persons who receive help usually reciprocate in some way, with the…
Prescribed and Over-the-Counter Medicine Use By the Ambulatory Elderly
This article examines use of prescription and over-the-counter drugs among a linear probability sample of ambulatory elderly. As previous research has shown, health status indicators are better predictors of use of prescription than nonprescription medications. The analysis suggests that self-medication with over-the-counter drugs may be a first step in illness behavior, rather than a substitute for physician consultation. These preparations are …
Patterns of Illness Behavior Among Rural Elderly: Preliminary Results of a Health Diary Study
This paper summarizes the responses of rural elderly people to a variety of symptoms experienced during a three‐week period. Responses to symptoms included causal attributions, consultation patterns, and intervention strategies. Data recorded in diaries during a three‐week period highlight the importance of lay care in the illnesses of older people. Most symptoms were managed by older respondents themselves. When symptoms were discussed with some…
Interpretations of Symptoms by Older People: A Health Diary Study of Illness Behavior
This article examines interpretations of symptoms experienced by a probability sample of older people living in community settings. Four assessments were included: seriousness, pain or discomfort, interference with desired activities, and causal attributions. Data were collected through structured interviews and daily diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 older people living in a four-county region of upstate New York. Although few res…
Gender and the organization of lay health care: A socialist-feminist perspective
Self-Care Responses to Symptoms by Older People: A Health Diary Study of Illness Behavior
Although studies of illness behavior have concentrated on utilization of formal services, recent research has highlighted the importance of lay care. In this article, patterns of self-treatment of symptoms among a sample of older people living in community settings are explored. Data were collected through personal interviews and health diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 elderly people. A majority of respondents managed most symptom…
The Impact of Symptom Interpretation on Physician Utilization
This article explores physician consultation decisions among a sample of elderly people living in community settings. The analysis integrates the insights of research on illness behavior, particularly symptom interpretation and lay consultation, with previous specifications of the Health Behavior Model. Data were gathered through personal interviews and health diaries completed on a daily basis for 21 consecutive days by a probability sample of o…
Older People??s Recommendations for Treating Symptoms: Repertoires of Lay Knowledge About Disease
This paper explores the content of older people's repertoires of lay knowledge regarding treatment strategies for commonly occurring symptoms. Data were collected through in-depth personal interviews in a sample of people 65 years and older living in community settings and managing their own health. Respondents mentioned a total of 657 specific treatment recommendations for 15 symptoms. Although very few mentioned treatments that were uniformly h…
Symptom Reporting During Physician Consultation: Results of a Health Diary Study
Most studies of physician consultation focus on decisions to contact health care providers. In this article, the authors examine decisions regarding which symptoms to report once people contact physicians. Data for the analysis were gathered through interviews and health diaries completed by a probability sample of 667 elderly people, based on a subsample of 152 respondents who consulted physicians during the 3-week reporting period. A qualitativ…
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
Sauna, Sisu and Sibelius: Ethnic Identity Among Finnish Americans
Explaining Pathways of Care Taken by Elderly People: An Analysis of Responses to Illness Symptoms
This paper documents the pathways elderly people follow in managing illness symptoms. Illness behavior is conceptualized as a series of actions or decisions that occur over time in varying permutations or combinations. Data were collected through personal interviews completed by a sample of older people managing their health in community settings in upstate New York. Respondents also completed three weeks of health diaries. Multiple logistic regr…
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
Long-Term Impact of Preventive Proactivity on Quality of Life of the Old-Old
OBJECTIVE: This research explored the long-term benefits of engaging in proactive health promotion efforts among old-old residents of Sunbelt retirement communities to empirically test components of the Preventive and Corrective Proactivity (PCP) Model of Successful Aging. Specifically, we examined the contributions of exercise, tobacco use, moderate alcohol use, and annual medical checkups to multidimensional quality of life indicators of physic…
The Structure of Lay Consultation Networks: Managing Illness in Community Settings
Results reaffirmed the importance of gender in structuring networks in late life. The low prevalence of friends supports Cartensen's Selectivity Theory
Strategies Resident-Physicians Use to Manage Sleep Loss and Fatigue
Our purpose is to examine strategies or countermeasures resident-physicians used in dealing with the effects of sleep loss and fatigue during residency training. A total of 149 residents across five sites and six specialty areas were recruited for the study. Focus groups consisted of an average of 7 individuals in the same year of training and residency program, and included 60 interns and 89 senior residents. Trained moderators conducted focus g…
The pivotal role of cardiac self-care in treatment timing
Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes
In response to the serious toll diabetes takes on health and resources, researchers increasingly are examining physical and psychological pathways that affect and are affected by diabetes, including stress. Although biomedical researchers and practitioners are beginning to recognize the association between stress and diabetes onset and management, laypersons have long-standing and extensive insights into the multiple ways in which stress is assoc…
The Structure and Function of Frail Male Veterans' Informal Networks
Findings illustrate not only the role women play as providers of the majority of informal care to veterans but also the substantial role adult sons have in providing support to their fathers. Many veterans are at risk of institutionalization by having no one to provide instrumental support and health monitoring
Alcohol Consumption Decisions Among Nonabusing Drinkers Diagnosed with Hepatitis C: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
Most studies of decisions to curtail alcohol consumption reflect experiences of abusing drinkers. We employ an exploratory sequential research design to explore the applicability of this research to the experience of nonabusing drinkers advised to curtail alcohol consumption after a Hepatitis C diagnosis. A qualitative component identified 17 new decision factors not reflected in an inventory of factors based on synthesis of existing scales. We t…
Lay Management of Chronic Disease: A Qualitative Study of Living with Hepatitis C Infection
Results underscore the diversity of strategies for living with a disease characterized by uncertain prognosis and variable expression of symptoms
Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Gerontology (15 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Family medicine (6 works) · Health care (6 works)