Aging and medical adherence: the use of automatic processes to achieve effortful things |
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Authors: | Liu Linda L Park Denise C |
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Affiliation: | Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. lindaliu@umich.edu |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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