Distress Reduction and the Effects of Preparatory Teaching Films and Patient Control

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

1966 • 21,432 citations

The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.

1976 • 1,257 citations

Reduction of Postoperative Pain by Encouragement and Instruction of Patients

1964 • 1,115 citations

The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.

1976 • 1,026 citations

Methodological problems in the measurement of pain: A comparison between the verbal rating scale and the visual analogue scale

1975 • 788 citations

Long-term effects of a control-relevant intervention with the institutionalized aged.

1977 • 602 citations

Active Coping Processes, Coping Dispositions, and Recovery from Surgery

1973 • 525 citations

Long-term effects of a control-relevant intervention with the institutionalized aged.

1977 • 515 citations

Reduction of anxiety in children facing hospitalization and surgery by use of filmed modeling.

1975 • 440 citations

Factors determining vicarious extinction of avoidance behavior through symbolic modeling.

1968 • 382 citations

Effects of accurate expectations about sensations on the sensory and distress components of pain.

1973 • 327 citations

Effects of accurate expectations and behavioral instructions on reactions during a noxious medical examination.

1974 • 309 citations

Effects of preparatory information about sensations, threat of pain, and attention on cold pressor distress.

1979 • 210 citations

Sensory information, instruction in a coping strategy, and recovery from surgery

1978 • 209 citations

Advances in Environmental Psychology

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Reduction of fear-related dental management problems with use of filmed modeling

1975 • 188 citations

Psychological preparation for an endoscopic examination

1973 • 172 citations

Effects of preparatory information about sensations, threat of pain, and attention on cold pressor distress.

1979 • 167 citations

NURSING INTERVENTION WITH THE PRESURGICAL PATIENT??? THE EFFECTS OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED PREOPERATIVE TEACHING

1971 • 163 citations

Anxiety, locus of control, type of preparatory information, and adjustment to dental surgery.

1976 • 160 citations

ALTERING CHILDRENʼS DISTRESS BEHAVIOR DURING ORTHOPEDIC CAST REMOVAL

1975 • 141 citations

PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATION OF SURGICAL PATIENTS

1973 • 138 citations

Information, choice, and reactions to stress: A field experiment in a blood bank with laboratory analogue.

1979 • 134 citations

Perceived control, self-observation, and response to aversive stimulation.

1970 • 128 citations

Anxiety, locus of control, type of preparatory information, and adjustment to dental surgery.

1976 • 126 citations

591. Nursing intervention with the pre-surgical patient???the effects of structured and unstructured preoperative teaching

1971 • 92 citations

EFFECTS OF STRUCTURING PATIENTSʼ EXPECTATIONS ON THEIR REACTIONS TO THREATENING EVENTS

1972 • 80 citations

Does Preoperative Instruction Make a Difference?

1968 • 77 citations

Expectancy and Magnitude of Reaction to a Noxious UCS

1973 • 75 citations

The Effects of Cognitive and Behavioral Control on Coping with an Aversive Health Examination

1978 • 75 citations

Subjective Distresses of Nasogastric Tube Feeding

1979 • 43 citations

Attitudes toward Self-Care among Practicing Physicians

1979 • 37 citations

Are evaluations inferred directly from overt action?

1975 • 3 citations