Improving Health & QOL Flashcards

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How can illness-related distress be reduced?

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Providing information about:

  • Nature of disease/treatment
  • How to cope
  • How to change behaviours to reduce risk or disease progression
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What strategies does stress management training include?

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  • Problem-solving
  • Cognitive restructuring
  • Relaxation
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What did Spiegel et al find about social support and distress?

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People who attended a weekly support group displayed improvements on measures of depression and anxiety

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What does the best kind of written information provide?

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Info about a condition and its management and engages the reader in a program of change or in planning their own care

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