Cognitive Self-Efficacy and Mental Health Ratings after a Memory Skills Group for Older Veterans with PTSD.

CONCLUSIONS: We found improvement in mental health outcomes following participation in a psychoeducational memory skills program, with differential impact on depressive symptoms for those with low baseline cognitive self-efficacy. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Participation in this intervention led to improved life satisfaction and cognitive self-efficacy. Cognitive self-efficacy, in turn, appeared to have implications for improving depressive symptomology and may be a useful target of memory skills education. PMID: 30727839 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Gerontologist - Category: Geriatrics Tags: Clin Gerontol Source Type: research