Final Flashcards
What are 4 cancer treatments?
1) surgery - remove
2) radiation - damange cancer cells
3) chemotherapy/hormone therapy - damange cancer cells
4) trasplant e.g. bone marrow/stem cells
2 aspects of psychoncology
1) response of patients, family members etc
2) how psychology influences disease process
4 psycosocial interventions for cancer
1) behavioural therapy e.g. relaxation 3
2) educational theapy e.g. coping skills
3) psychotherapy
4) support groups e.g. social support/emotional expression
3 reasons for the myth of fighting spirit in cancer survival
1) file drawer problem
2) methodological and anayltical problems
3) imbedded in culture
3 examples of goals of end of life care
1) compassionate communication
2) family oriented care
3) avoid prolongation of death
3 examples of components of a good death
1) preparation of death
2) pain and symptom management
3) clear decision making
3 thmes of qualitative research with CF
1) treatment burden
2) physical limitations
3) tensions between normal and not normal
4 types of noise in communication theory
1) physical eg. glare
2) cognitive e.g. distration
3) affective e.g. bad mood
4) socio-cultural e.g. diff. culture so can’t make sense of the message
3 important aspects of HCP and patient communication
1) helath promotion
2) disease prevention
3) treatment
2 things that HCP and patient communication allow for
1) talk about symptoms
2) discuss treatment options
2 problems with HCP and patient communication
1) gaps in understanindg
2) lack of emotional reassurance
Describe deviant patient persepctive
- problems from the patient (non-adherance)
- not good assumption to make
Authortarian doctor perspective - describe it
- is the problem of the doctor’s power role
- continuum of stype from patient-centered to doctor-centered (more adherence if leaning toward patent centered)
4 aspects of patient communication
1) undersstand perspective of patients
2) shared understanding of illness
3) take into account psychosocial context
4) share power and responsbility with patient and HCP
4 types of e-health
1) health information on the internet - quality?
2) online support groups - anoynomity
3) patient provider email contact - quality, liability, fees etc. fairness to HCP workload
4) electronic health records - pricacy and ethic issues
What are 3 components of high health literacy
1) functional e.g. read and write
2) interaction e.g. how well you engage in resources etc.
3) critical e.g. can you communicate properly with doctor
4 aspects of effective health communication
1) targeted to specific population
2) specific behaviour/health outcome
3) consideration of content and medium of message e.g. poster/commercial etc.
4) mechanisms for evaluation
Describe risks (2 types)
1) screening
2) immunization
- deals with risk of disease and identify early so they are immune and never get it in the first place
Describe screening
- a population strategy (groups at heightened risk)
- don’t have any symptoms but are high risk
4 problems of screening
1) technical implementation - need lab
2) reluctance in adoption - people don’t come
3) unexpected negative side effects of participation
4) debate about effectivness of forms
Describe some context dependent effectiveness of screening
- invasive
- prevalence - if low then not effective
- cultural belies
- economic factors - need to allocate funds
- availability of cures
- progression of disease - if short then no point of screening
3 motivational factors of breast canacer screening
1) high prevalence
2) link between early identification and survival
3) support from groups e.g. pink ribbon
Name some barriers to breast cancer screening
- not necessary if you don’t have symptoms
- worry of radiation
- fear of examination
- fear of result
- don’t want to think about it
3 meanings of cancer and screening
1) feared disease - don’t want to draw attention to canacer because it is a incurable and painful disease - scared to talk
2) beliefs - if detected = already too late; fate determines who gets cancer
3) breast, cervical and sexuality - canacer is threat to female identity; promiscuity = go get a PAP
name 3 consequences of cancer screening
1) anxiety of screening results
2) problem sof overdiagnosis
3) general negative side effects
What is immunization?
- vaccination of the susceptible to protect person and ecourage protection of community as a whole = herd immunity; primary prevention = so they never get in in the first place
3 factors of social cognition model of immunization
1) percieved likelihood - of getting disease
2) percieved susceptibility
3) percieved severity
Socio-cultural context problems of immunization
- the rising power of medical science
- upper/middle class = loss of individual liberty
- working class = growing power of the state
HCP problems of immunization
- conflicting advice from diff. HCP
- ethical issues of excusing an individual vs. benefit of the entire community e.g. if someone doesn’t get vaccinated because of religious reason but puts the society at sake for disease?
Some reasons why parent’s don’t let children get vaccinated
- percieved danger of vaccine
- doubts about medical claism
- percieved ability to protect child
- percieved liklihood of child getting disease
- don’t have time –> more risk of drugs and street crime etc.
- natural vs. unnatural
- homephatic beliefs e.g. introduction of disease is seen as harmful
3 reasons for vaccination resistance
1) risk - how people calculate cost and benefit
2) reasons for refusing vaccination - e.g. homepathy and religion
3) trust - mistrust in government esp. from lower SES
what are 4 ways in which genetic risk can vary
1) rates of incidence
2) seriousness
3) available intervention for disease
4) experience of genetic risk
What are 4 important concepts of genetic risk
1) genetic science - Human Genome project
2) role of media - usually wrong; overemphasize genes vs. enviroment
3) genetic predisposition testing
4) genetic counselling - provide emotional support and decision making
2 limitations of predispotion testing
1) contoversial issues of prophylactic surgery e.g. angelina effect
2) more uncertainties than certainties e.g. 90% genes that give you cancer are non familiarl
2 ethical issues of predisposition testing
1) right to know vs. right not to know - conflict between individual’s right’s and another
2) implication for policy e.g. diffiucult to ask for permission to notify risk and formal/informal risk notication process differ
fear
there is a threat