Aging and medical adherence: The use of automatic processes to achieve effortful things
Aging and medical adherence: The use of automatic processes to achieve effortful things
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DOI：
10.1037/0882-7974.19.2.318
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发表时间：
2004-06-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Park, DC
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作者：
Liu, LL;Park, DC
这项研究调查了为实现目标制定详细的实施计划是否会改善老年人对健康行为的坚持。非糖尿病参与者（N = 31）排练，审议，或形成实施意图进行家庭血糖监测，每天4次，持续3周。实施组执行测试的频率比两个比较组高出近50%。结果不能归因于进行测试的意图的先验差异。研究结果表明，实施意图可以促进老年人在自然环境中持续一段时间的重要医疗自我护理任务的表现，并与先前的研究相一致，该研究涉及自动认知过程，不显示与年龄相关的下降。这些结果支持该技术用于改善临床人群对健康行为的依从性。
This research examined whether forming detailed implementation plans for achieving a goal improved older adults' adherence to a health behavior. Nondiabetic participants (N = 31) rehearsed, deliberated, or formed implementation intentions to perform home blood glucose monitoring, 4 times daily for 3 weeks. The implementation group performed tests nearly 50% more often than the 2 comparison groups. Results were not attributable to a priori differences in intentions to perform testing. Findings indicate that implementation intentions can facilitate older adults' performance of important medical self-care tasks in naturalistic settings over sustained periods of time and concur with previous research that implicates automatic cognitive processes that do not show age-related decline. These results support the utility of this technique for improving adherence to health behaviors in clinical populations.