Illness Scripts

Question 1

How might illness scripts most help in creating a differential diagnosis?

Answer 1

A patient’s illness script is compared with different disease illness scripts

Question 2

When comparing disease illness scripts, which of the following should you do?

Answer 2

Create a table with illness scripts in adjacent columns or rows

Question 3

Obsessive compulsive disorder typically begins before age 25. This information is part of what illness script component?

Answer 3

Epidemiology

Question 4

A patient complains of a headache that started with mild pain this morning and has been getting worse over the course of the day with no periods of relief. How would the timing best be described?

Answer 4

Acute, progressive

Question 5

A portion of a syndrome statement in a patient illness scripts reads as follows: “unilateral headaches with phonophobia”. What might the patient have indicated during the intake?

Answer 5

Their head hurts on the left side and they find that sounds make it worse