Mass inoculation in a community

The effect of primary prevention of stress reactions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11054014
AutoresAvigdor Klingman (0009-0000-9642-4470, University of Haifa Mount Carmel Haifa Israel, autor correspondente)
Ano1985
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas323-332
Data de publicação1985-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1007/bf00914936
PMID4025245
OpenAlexW2036317227
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas21

This study assessed the effectiveness of a brief, situation-specific, group-administered preparatory intervention in a nonclient school population undergoing mass inoculation against rubella. Fifty-one girls were randomly assigned to practice, no-practice, or control groups. Both the practice and the no-practice groups received information that described the inoculation procedure and how to cope with it by using cognitive-behavioral coping skills. The practice group was encouraged to perform coping techniques of this type, whereas the no-practice group was told only that the intervention would help them during the inoculation. Subjects in both practice and no-practice groups reported less anxiety and exhibited more cooperative behavior during inoculation than subjects in the control group, and those who were guided and prompted to actively practice derived greater benefit

Anxiety · Coping (psychology) · Health psychology · Population · Psychiatry · Public health · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Viral Infections and Vectors