BBS Flashcards
Define mortality rates
Number of deaths in current year vs the previous
Can be corrected to age, gender and illness to make more meaningful
Define morbidity rates
Number of sufferers of a particular disease/illness
Measured by prevalence rates
Define measures of functioning
To what extent can you do the following task
aka activity of daily living scales
Use either in isolation or as part of more complex assessment
Define subjective health status
Individuals rate their own health
Known as QoL scales or health-related quality of life scales
Define QoL
Quality of Life
Value assigned to duration of life modified by the impairments, functional states, perceptions and social opportunities that are influenced by disease, injury, treatment or policy
What is a unidimensional QoL?
Assess health in one specific aspect of health
e.g. General Health Questionnaire (mood)
What is a multidimensional QoL?
Assess health in the broadest sense
E.g. Nottingham Health Profile (NHP)
What are individual quality of life measures?
Individuals rate their own health and define the dimensions with which it should be rated
e.g. Schedule for evaluating individual quality of life (SEIQoL)
Name the three stages of Levanthal’s Self-Regulatory Model of Illness Cognition
Stage 1: Interpretation - Symptom perception and social messages Stage 2: Coping - Approach or avoidance coping Stage 3: Evaluation - Did my approach strategy work?
Name the four ethical principles
- Justice
- Nonmaleficence
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
Define futility
Intervention unlikely to provide significant benefit for the pt
Define acts and omissions
Killing and letting die
Define double effect
If doing something morally good has a bad side effect then it’s ethically okay to do providing the bad side effect was not intended e.g. pain relief as end of life which suppresses respiratory drive resulting in death
