Chapter 12 Flashcards
What is Collaborative Care?
a cooperative form of health care in which physicians, psychologists, and other health care providers join forces to improve patient care
What is Attentional Focus?
a person’s characteristic style of monitoring bodily symptoms, emotions and overall well-being
What is Illness Representation?
how a person views a particular illness: identity, causes, timeline, consequences, controllability
What is Delay Behavior?
tendency to avoid seeking medical care
What is Sick Role Behavior?
- the array of behaviors in which one engages following diagnosis
- “acting sick”
What is Explanatory Style?
patients who dwell on attempting to assign blame for their plight fare more poorly
What is Comorbidity?
simultaneous occurrence of two or more physical and/or psychological disorders of symptoms
Name factors which predict seeking treatment.
- Prior experience and expectations affect how people interpret symptoms
- Tendency to exaggerate expected symptoms while ignoring unexpected symptoms
What is Hypochondriasis?
the condition of experiencing abnormal anxiety over one’s health, often including imaginary symptoms
What is Malingering?
making believe one is ill to benefit from sick role behavior
Name factors which predict adherence.
o treatment regimen variables
o patient variables
o provider variables
o patient-provider communication
What are some stresses of hospitalization?
medical errors, depersonalized view of patients
What are treatment regimen variables?
- keeping regimes as simple and short in duration as possible
- tailoring treatment to fit the patient’s lifestyle
- simple, understandable instructions
What is patient-provider communication?
- provider’s communication style
- patient’s satisfaction with his or her doctor
- patient’s communication skills, even nonverbal behaviors
What are patient variables?
- gender, ethnicity, education and income are poor predictors of adherence
- having support of family
- provider’s display of empathy and confidence
What are provider variables?
-job satisfaction, number of patients seen per week, communication style all predict patient adherence
What is the leading cause of death for young people?
Accidents
List the top five causes of death for people aged 15 to 24 years old NOW
1) unintentional injuries
2) homicide
3) suicide
4) cancer
5) heart disease
In the 1900s what were the leading causes of death top five?
1) heart disease and stroke
2) influenza pneumonia
3) TB
4) gastritis
5) accidents
The type of accidental death that occur?
Poisoning-by gases and vapors (CO2)
Firearms
Poisoning (by solid and liquid)-(drug use, accidental poisoning)
Suffocation
Fire and burns
Drowning
Falls (also the leading cause of injury to people over 65 years old!)
MVA
All other types
***the take away point was that age makes a huge difference in the type of accident **
Define sensitizers
People cope with health problems and other adverse events by closely scanning the bodies and environments for information (everything they read about they have)
Define repressor’s
People who cope with health problems by ignoring or distancing themselves from stressful situations
What are secondary gains?
benefits one receives for being sick (sympathy, ice cream, kindness)
define Comorbidity?
The simultaneous occurrence of two or more physical and/or psychological disorders/symptoms
