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effects of meditation on global and factor scores on the BSI: A secondary analysis
Title
The effects of meditation on global and factor scores on the BSI: A secondary analysis.
Creator
Buti, Rebecca Leigh., Florida Atlantic University, Freeman, Edward
Abstract/Description
This study was a secondary analysis or data collected by Freeman, E., Ruppenthal, B., and Flinders, R. entitled "Meditation on a Passage and Repetition of a Mantram to Enhance Self-Care of Persons with HIV Infection" (1992). Selected data were re-analyzed considering the Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory (Orem, 1995). Self-care consisted of daily repetition of an inspirational passage and mantra, which served as the interventions for the primary study. The primary researchers noted that Brief...
Show moreThis study was a secondary analysis or data collected by Freeman, E., Ruppenthal, B., and Flinders, R. entitled "Meditation on a Passage and Repetition of a Mantram to Enhance Self-Care of Persons with HIV Infection" (1992). Selected data were re-analyzed considering the Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory (Orem, 1995). Self-care consisted of daily repetition of an inspirational passage and mantra, which served as the interventions for the primary study. The primary researchers noted that Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) scores rose significantly after the intervention. Thus, secondary analysis focused on the relationships of the basic conditioning factors (BCF) to the global and factor scores on the BSI before and after the intervention of meditation. Secondary analysis revealed a difference in scores between entry and exit on the Global Severity Index (GSI) of the BSI in reference to the basic conditioning factor of age. By the end of the 10 weeks of meditation, age was no longer a factor in causing GSI scores to increase.
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Date Issued
1998
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15541
Subject Headings
HIV-positive persons, AIDS (Disease)--Patients, Psychodiagnostics, Self-care, Health
Format
Document (PDF)
Medicaid incentive reimbursement programs in long-term care: An evaluation of the Florida Medicaid AIDS nursing home admission program
Title
Medicaid incentive reimbursement programs in long-term care: An evaluation of the Florida Medicaid AIDS nursing home admission program.
Creator
Cruise, Peter L., Florida Atlantic University, Clare, Donald A.
Abstract/Description
This study evaluated the Florida Medicaid Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) nursing home admission incentive program using goal attainment and constituency satisfaction criteria. The program provides additional reimbursement to nursing homes which admit Medicaid-covered persons with AIDS (PWAs). Goal attainment, i.e., increasing the rate of PWA admissions, was assessed using ICD-9-CM coded (for AIDS) Medicaid-covered hospital discharges to nursing homes as a surrogate nursing home...
Show moreThis study evaluated the Florida Medicaid Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) nursing home admission incentive program using goal attainment and constituency satisfaction criteria. The program provides additional reimbursement to nursing homes which admit Medicaid-covered persons with AIDS (PWAs). Goal attainment, i.e., increasing the rate of PWA admissions, was assessed using ICD-9-CM coded (for AIDS) Medicaid-covered hospital discharges to nursing homes as a surrogate nursing home admission measure. To assess satisfaction, both program constituencies--hospitals (N = 120) which place and nursing homes (N = 308) which agree to admit PWAs--were surveyed in 10 counties. For both constituencies, the surveys were designed to measure satisfaction along two dimensions: (1) the degree of satisfaction with the Florida program, and (2) the level of agreement with the general concept of incentive reimbursement. For nursing homes, the survey also measured: institutional characteristics, financial characteristics, and medical and technological issues. The goal attainment results revealed that the PWA admission rate showed no meaningful change over the five years studied. The constituency satisfaction results revealed that both constituencies were moderately satisfied with the Florida program and incentive programs generally, but that such satisfaction was not related to the number of PWAs admitted to nursing homes. Nursing home institutional characteristics and medical issues were not related to the number of PWAs admitted, but financial characteristics and technological issues were significantly (but negatively) related. The following policy implications were drawn. Although the Florida program did not meet its goal, both constituencies were satisfied with the program and incentives generally, leaving open the possibility for program modification. The previously unconfirmed concern that nursing homes fear intergenerational problems if PWAs were to be admitted was supported by the findings, but nursing home assertions that their lack of appropriate technology restricts PWA admissions were not.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12397
Subject Headings
Nursing homes--Florida--Cost control, Medicaid--Florida, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for--Florida--Cost effectiveness, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Long-term care--Florida--Cost effectiveness
Format
Document (PDF)