Older adults' memory for medical information, effect of number and mode of presentation: An experimental study.

Objective: To analyze different ways of presenting medical information to older adults, tailoring the information and its presentation to the characteristics of memory function in old age.

Methods: Experimental study. We took into account the following variables: amount of information, type of information and mode of presentation, and time delay.

Age and Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation Strategies: Autobiographical Memory, Rumination, Problem Solving and Distraction.

Our study tested the hypothesis that older adults and men use more adaptive emotion regulatory strategies but fewer negative emotion regulatory strategies than younger adults and women. In addition, we tested the hypothesis that rumination acts as a mediator variable for the effect of age and gender on depression scores. Differences in rumination, problem solving, distraction, autobiographical recall and depression were assessed in a group of young adults (18-29 years) compared to a group of older adults (50-76 years).

Parental rearing and eating psychopathology.

Introduction: The aim of the study was to identify the relationship between perceived rearing styles and the clinical expression of Eating Disorders (ED).

Methods: One hundred and ninety-six patients diagnosed of an ED and 127 healthy student as controls selected from the Nursing College were evaluated for general psychopathology (STAI, BDI II, RSE), and for abnormal eating attitudes (EAT, EDI-II, BITE). The EMBU (‘my memories of upbringing’) was administered for the assessment of perceived parental rearing styles and was used a questionnaire to assess familial variables.

Life review therapy using autobiographical retrieval practice for older adults with clinical depression.

The aim of this experiment was to examine the efficacy of life review based on autobiographical retrieval practice for treating depression in older adults. Thirty-seven clinically depressed older adults aged 64-83, who were also receiving pharmacological treatment, were randomly assigned to life review therapy or to a placebo condition with supportive therapy. Results indicated decreased depression for both conditions, with no significant differences between the two therapies.

Effect of the evaluation of recall on the rate of information recalled by patients in Primary Care.

Objective: To analyse whether asking the patient to restate the recommendations they receive before leaving the surgery improves the recall rate once the consultation is finished.

Methods: Observational study in 37 Primary Care Consultant (PCC) in health centres of the city of Albacete. The final sample had 963 patients.