I & P Term 2 Flashcards
What is McGills pain questionaire?
Allows patients to give their doctor a description of the quality and intensity of their pain. It is really long and includes things like sleep and food intake
Who is the faces pain scale useful for?
Children and the cognitively impaired
What is Descarted model of pain (the lay view)?
Descartes believed that there was a ‘string’ that attatched the peripheral to the brain which allows the detection of pain. He thought there was only one signalling pathway
Who wrote the gate control theory?
Melzack and Wall
For the gate control theory, is pain reduced when the gate is open or closed?
Closed
Strange, I know
What type of proccessing is driven by knowledge, experience and expectations?
Top Down processing
What are ‘C fibres’ and ‘Alpha Beta fibres’ within the gate control theory?
‘C fibres’ within the skin, which are thin and responded to pain, and responded quickly.
There were also ‘alpha beta’ fibres that are thicker and they register touch and vibration. It is these ‘alpha beta’ fibres that, when closed, reduce the C fibres rate, so less pain is felt.
Who devised the ‘virtual walking’ way to treat pain?
Moseley 2007
What is virtual walking?
Patients who experienced phantom limb screen sit infront of a screen and watch a video of themselves, but with the phantom limb. This had good results and reduced pain
What is the general adaption syndrome by Seyle?
This describes the bodies long and short term reaction to stress (e.g. being hit by a car or losing a loved one)
He found out that is the stress was severe or prolonged, it led to disease (physiologically)
What is tertiary prevention of PTSD?
measures to prevent the PTSD worsening, after it has been diagnosed
What did Holmes and Rache (1967) devise, what is it name and how does it work?
Social readjustment scale
They had a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to stress with a number /100 next to them. You fill it out and add up your scores and depending on your score it says whether you are at a high or low risk of illness.
Who wrote the hassles and uplifts scale?
Lazarus & Folkman 1981
It assesses day to day stress
What did Protherae at all (1999) find?
saw if people who were diagnosed with breast cancer had undergone previous stressful events. They found out there was no correlation
What did Cooper and Faragher find?
they found that malignancy can be due to a single life event.
What are the 3 main characteristics of a person with type A personality?
Competitiveness
Time urgency
Hostility
What did they find out when they examined people with Type A personalities and their risk of heart attacks?
Having a type A personality makes you more likely to get coronary arthersceloris (but only if you are below 45) BUT if you do have a heart attack, you are more likely to live longer afterwards (as you can change your lifestyle)
What is ‘the looking glass self; theory?
a social psychological theory that states that a person’s self grows out of societies interpersonal reactions with the person and the perception others have of that individual
Who wrote the social conception theory and what is it?
Festinger
This theory centres on the belief that there is a drive within individuals to gain accurate self- evaluations
What are downward comparisons?
Where people form negative views about others, to make themselves feel better about themselves.