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Do pre-surgical psychological interventions improve psychological adjustment, recovery, and cost-effectiveness in surgical patients?
Do pre-surgical psychological interventions improve psychological adjustment, recovery, and cost-effectiveness in surgical patients?
This review outlines the utility, limitations, and recommendations for implementing information-based, behaviorally-oriented, and insight-oriented pre-surgical psychological interventions.
May support pre-surgical psychological interventions in surgical care; leaves open efficacy on adjustment, recovery, and cost-effectiveness.
The literature on pre-surgical psychological interventions designed to improve psychological adjustment to and recovery from surgery, as well as increase cost-effectiveness, is reviewed. Three broad classifications of interventions (information-based interventions, behaviorally-oriented interventions, and insight-oriented interventions) are discussed based on previous studies aimed at demonstrating the utility of each approach. Limitations of the research in this area are presented and recommendations are made for effective implementation of pre-surgical interventions.
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