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ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 87-94Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2007.05.003
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Evidence that reduced treatment achieves similar outcomes is beneficial because shorter interventions may be more cost-effective and more acceptable to participants. We examined the effects of shortening a memory intervention for elders from eight sessions to four sessions. Shortening the intervention had little impact on either self-reported or performance measures of memory and daily living activities. Small to moderate effects were associated with positive changes in both groups. When examining cost-effectiveness, an eight-session intervention produced slightly greater gains in memory performance, but at a higher cost. Future studies should systematically vary key intervention components in more diverse samples. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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