应对轻度认知障碍或轻度痴呆症的老年人认知能力下降:一个范围审查
Youngmin Cho1,2, Donruedee Kamkhoad3, Natalie G Regier2
1School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Aging & mental health
|January 21, 2025
概括
轻度认知障碍 (PwMCI) 和轻度痴呆症 (PwMD) 患者使用各种应对策略,如解决问题和接受. 背景和支持影响这些策略,强调需要个性化干预来提高生活质量.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 轻度认知障碍 (MCI) 和轻度痴呆 (MD) 显著影响日常功能.
- 了解应对机制对于支持认知衰退的个体至关重要.
- 现有研究需要综合,以绘制当前应对策略和影响因素.
研究的目的:
- 综合地绘制轻度认知障碍 (PwMCI) 和轻度痴呆症 (PwMD) 患者使用的应对策略.
- 确定影响这些应对策略的采用和有效性的促进者和障碍.
- 为改善生活质量的个性化干预措施的发展提供信息.
主要方法:
- 在主要数据库 (PubMed,CINAHL,EMBASE,PsycINFO) 进行系统的文献搜索.
- 应对环流模型的应用,用于策略识别.
- 来自17项选定的研究数据的专题综合.
主要成果:
- 确定了13个应对策略的主题,分为解决问题,积极情绪,避免问题和负面情绪方法.
- 例如使用提醒,积极参与,接受和隐藏记忆问题.
- 促进者和障碍物包括社会互动,非正式照顾,专业支持和情绪状态.
结论:
- 应对策略是多样化的,并取决于背景,需要PwMCI和PwMD的个性化方法.
- 量身定制的干预措施可以显著改善经历认知衰退的个体的生活质量.
- 未来的研究应该探索应对策略与认知衰退有关的使用的发展轨迹.
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