Journal of Nursing & Care

Pérez-Hernández Maria Gicela

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• Research Article
  Directed Imagination: A Procedure for Improving Self-concept in Persons with Leprosy
  Author(s): Pérez-Hernández Maria Gicela, Velasco-Rodríguez Raymundo, Mora-Brambila Ana Bertha, Vázquez-Espinoza José Antonio, Maturano-Melgoza José Adrián, Hilerio-López Ángel Gabriel and Trujillo-Hernández BenjamínPérez-Hernández Maria Gicela, Velasco-Rodríguez Raymundo, Mora-Brambila Ana Bertha, Vázquez-Espinoza José Antonio, Maturano-Melgoza José Adrián, Hilerio-López Ángel Gabriel and Trujillo-Hernández Benjamín
  
  Background: From the perspective of the Roy Adaptation Model, leprosy is seen as a focal stimulus with severe psychological repercussions that force persons to modify their behavior in order to avoid being rejected by the social stigma the disease creates, thus inducing in them an ineffective adaptive response of the self-concept mode. The aim of the present work was to describe the effect of the directed imagination technique at the adaptation level of the self-concept mode in persons with leprosy in Colima, Mexico during 2012. Methods: A quantitative study with a pre-experimental, longitudinal, and prolective design was conducted. The sample was made up of 24 persons that were given a before-and-after self-concept test using the Viveros 03 instrument, which has a Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient of 0.8581. The technique of direc.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000273

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