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Lay Beliefs Flashcards

1
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What are lay beliefs?

A

How people understand health and illness
Constructed by people with no specialised knowledge

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2
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Where do people get information for lay beliefs?

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Cultural
Social
Person knowledge

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3
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What are the three perceptions of health?

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Negative definition
Function definition
Positive definition

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4
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What is a negative definition of health?

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Health equates to absence of illness

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What is a function definition of health?

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Health is the ability to do certain things

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What is a positive definition of health?

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Health is a state of wellbeing and fitness

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7
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What are the two distinct issues with lay epidemiology?

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Understanding why and how illnesses happen

Why illnesses happen to a particular person at a particular time

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What are the three influences of lay belief on behaviours?

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Health
Illness
Sick role

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What does health behaviour mean?

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Activity undertaken fro purpose of maintaining health and preventing illness

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What does illness behaviour mean?

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Activity of an ill person to understand their illness and seek solution

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What does sick role behaviour mean?

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Formal response to symptoms
Like getting help and as a patient

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What influences illness behaviour?
(An ill person researches their illness and seeks a solution)

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Culture
Visibility of symptoms
Extent that their illness disrupts their life
Lay referral
Availability of resources

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13
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What is lay referral?

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Patients speaking to one another before seeking help

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What is a lay referral system?

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A chain of advice seeking
In which sick people speak to other lay people prior to seeking help from healthcare professionals

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What does lay referral help to understand?

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Why people delay seeking help
How when and why people consult a doctor
Use of alternative medication

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What are the five types of work in the sociological theory of LTCs (long term conditions)?

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Illness
Everyday life
Emotional
Biographical
Identity

17
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What two things do you manage in illness work?

A

The period leading up to getting the diagnosis

Symptoms - dealing with physical manifestations of illness and bodily changes.

18
Q

Explain the type of management in everyday life work
What do you try and maintain?

A

Coping and strategic management:
Coping (dealing with illness)
Strategy (actions and processes involved in managing condition and impacts)

Normalisation

19
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What does normalisation mean in everyday Iife work?

A

Trying to keep pre-illness lifestyle and identity intact or redesignate your new life as
‘normal life’

20
Q

Explain emotional work?
What may you do?

A

Managing one’s emotions and others

Presenting as cheery self (downplaying pain or other symptoms)

21
Q

Explain why would commit to biographical work

A

Loss of self: former self images crumbles away without simultaneous development of equally
valued new ones

22
Q

Explain identity work

A

Work to maintain an acceptable identity

Different conditions carry different connotations Consequence of actual and imagined reaction of others

Stigma

23
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What are the four types of stigma (in identity work)?

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Discreditable
Discredited
Enacted
Felt

24
Q

What is discreditable stigma?
Give an example

A

Not visible - but if found out people may treat you differently
Mental illness

25
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What is discredited stigma?
Give an example

A

Physical characteristic
Physical disability

26
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What is enacted stigma?
Give an example

A

Real experience of discrimination
Comments

27
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What is felt stigma?

A

Fear of enacted stigma

28
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How can you distinguish between biographical and identity work?

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Biographical - for yourself

Identity - for others

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