Ivo L Abraham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5515531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivo L Abraham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivo L |
| FAMILY NAME | Abraham |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAM I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mental health services for rural elderly
Effects of Cognitive Group Iterventions on Depression and Cognition Among Elderly Women in Long-Term Care
The effects of cognitive-behavioral group therapy and focused visual imagery group therapy on cognition and depression in frail women residing in nursing homes were examined.' Twenty-four (24) women participated in a 24-week protocol of cognitive- behavioral group therapy and twenty-one (21) in a protocol of visual imagery group therapy of similar duration. Eleven (11) women in a comparison condition participated in a 24 week series of educationa…
Designing continuing care retirement communities
1Associate Professor of Nursing Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry 2Associate Professor of Nursing Associate Professor of Behavior Medicine and Psychiatry Director, Center on Aging and Health University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia
Changes in Resident Mix in Nursing Homes
In planning and implementing a study, we unintentionally and serendipitously obtained data about changes in resident mix over a 2.8-yr. period. We screened residents of a 184-bed nursing home for cognition and sensorium in October 1984 to assess sampling feasibility for a grant proposal in preparation. At that time, 65.2% of the residents met the sampling criteria. However, in July/August 1987, after award of funding, only 5.4% of residents of th…
Obstetrical complications checklist
This article reports on the development, initial validation, and testing of an instrument to measure obstetrical complications associated with maternal anxiety. Ninety‐nine obstetrical complications reported in the literature were rated for clinical‐conceptual relevance by 39 experts. Complications with high interrater reliability were subsequently included in a factor analysis. Estimates of internal consistency reliability were obtained. Five fa…
Cognitive Set and Clinical Inference
Fifty-four subjects participated in a study on the effects of general referral information about a client on subsequent clinical inferences about this client. They were randomly assigned to a “referral information” or “no referral information” condition before being presented with additional data. Clinical inferential tasks included the assessment of maladjustment, client stress, depressive status; psychiatric emergency, and global psychosocial f…
Causal Attributions of Depression
This article presents estimates of internal consistency for the Causal Dimension Scale, recently developed to measure causal attributions in terms of attributions of locus, stability, and controllability of the causes. In a study of the clinical inference of depression, alpha coefficients ranging from .68 to .96 were noted for the whole test and the subscales. The scale may prove helpful in the study of causal attributions about the mental health…
Development and Initial Reliability Testing of an Instrument to Measure Attitudes toward in-Service Programming among Psychiatric Hospital Staff
An instrument to determine clinical staff's perceptions and valuations of in-service programming, the Staff Development Evaluation Questionnaire, is presented. Initial testing on sample of 55 psychiatric nursing staff in a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design yielded alpha coefficients of .83 for both the pretest and the posttest and a test-retest coefficient of temporal stability of .81. The need for further assessment of reliabi…
Development and Initial Reliability Testing of an Instrument to Measure Attitudes toward in-Service Programming among Psychiatric Hospital Staff
An instrument to determine clinical staff's perceptions and valuations of in-service programming, the Staff Development Evaluation Questionnaire, is presented. Initial testing on sample of 55 psychiatric nursing staff in a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design yielded alpha coefficients of .83 for both the pretest and the posttest and a test-retest coefficient of temporal stability of .81. The need for further assessment of reliabi…
Causal Attributions of Depression
This article presents estimates of internal consistency for the Causal Dimension Scale, recently developed to measure causal attributions in terms of attributions of locus, stability, and controllability of the causes. In a study of the clinical inference of depression, alpha coefficients ranging from .68 to .96 were noted for the whole test and the subscales. The scale may prove helpful in the study of causal attributions about the mental health…
Cognitive Set and Clinical Inference
Fifty-four subjects participated in a study on the effects of general referral information about a client on subsequent clinical inferences about this client. They were randomly assigned to a “referral information” or “no referral information” condition before being presented with additional data. Clinical inferential tasks included the assessment of maladjustment, client stress, depressive status; psychiatric emergency, and global psychosocial f…
Obstetrical complications checklist
This article reports on the development, initial validation, and testing of an instrument to measure obstetrical complications associated with maternal anxiety. Ninety‐nine obstetrical complications reported in the literature were rated for clinical‐conceptual relevance by 39 experts. Complications with high interrater reliability were subsequently included in a factor analysis. Estimates of internal consistency reliability were obtained. Five fa…
Changes in Resident Mix in Nursing Homes
In planning and implementing a study, we unintentionally and serendipitously obtained data about changes in resident mix over a 2.8-yr. period. We screened residents of a 184-bed nursing home for cognition and sensorium in October 1984 to assess sampling feasibility for a grant proposal in preparation. At that time, 65.2% of the residents met the sampling criteria. However, in July/August 1987, after award of funding, only 5.4% of residents of th…
Designing continuing care retirement communities
1Associate Professor of Nursing Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry 2Associate Professor of Nursing Associate Professor of Behavior Medicine and Psychiatry Director, Center on Aging and Health University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia
Effects of Cognitive Group Iterventions on Depression and Cognition Among Elderly Women in Long-Term Care
The effects of cognitive-behavioral group therapy and focused visual imagery group therapy on cognition and depression in frail women residing in nursing homes were examined.' Twenty-four (24) women participated in a 24-week protocol of cognitive- behavioral group therapy and twenty-one (21) in a protocol of visual imagery group therapy of similar duration. Eleven (11) women in a comparison condition participated in a 24 week series of educationa…
Mental health services for rural elderly
Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (3 works) · Reliability (semiconductor (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works)