Learning Objectives Flashcards
Information should include
Treatment, coping, change behavior
How do you lower distress
Provide information, self-management, social support and emotional expression
Stress management should include
Prob-solving
Cog restructuring
Relaxation
Stress management have been proven effective for?
Arthritis, dermatitis, ibs, diabetes and angina
What are the barriers to getting evidence into practice
Communication to practitioners Conflicting preferences Tailor to individual Right people to work together Resistance to change
Barriers to change in health professionals
Organization issues Transferability Info transfer Info content Professional Personal characteristics Attitudes beliefs
What is the ideal framework for intervention
Identifying, analyzing,
Developing outcomes
Consider the process and assessment, design, implement
Assess outcomes
Children treatment communication involves (3)
Then adherence to all involves ?
Provide both written and verbal info Build trust Consider beliefs and attitudes between parent and child Identify norms and expectations Gain and encourage commitment Work together to overcome barriers Tailor lifestyles to family unit
What has health psychology contributed to?
Understanding of lay perceptions of health, illness treatment and the cognitions that may facilitate or impede health behavior such as adherence
Additionally health psychology has helped with communication in what way?
Asking the right questions, what are the barriers?
Subjective norm, self-efficacy
Compliance in motivating patients to adhere, treatment, management or behavioral change
Barriers to evidence-based practice are
Academic surveys hard to translate
Population based on healthy rather than clinical not generalizable
Health models are behavioral not cognitive
What does health psychology need to do?
Needs to encompass socio-cultural, economic, and political aspects of health care.
What are the 6 main QOL
Social, physical, psychological, environmental, spiritual beliefs, independent
What influences QOL?
Demographics, conditions, treatment and psychosocial factors
QOL and age is important why?
Particular disease happens before it is considered normal
Old age may not allow for QOL
What are the psychosocial influences on QOL
Emotional responses
Coping differences
Social support
Why is measuring QOL important?
Allows for promoting communication
Measures inform
Evaluate alternatives
My input because we all want to die with dignity
What are the advantages and disadvantages to QOL measures?
Generic- allows for comparison but does not uniqueness
Disease specific allows for uniqueness but not comparisons
What emotions do individuals face in illness
Uncertainty
Disruption
Striving for recovery
Restoration of acceptance
SEIQOL addresses ( standard of evaluation)
Identify 5 aspects that are of value to the individual
What are the stages of cancer response?
Initial, dysphoria, adaption
What does depression impede?
Treatment and rehabilitation
What is anxiety associated with?
Poor control of blood glucose
Depression is linked to ?
Resuming to pre-illness functioning
Negative emotions hinder?
Behavioral change
Positive responses include
Closer relationships after illness, empathy - women, healthier lifestyle-men
Maintaining positive involves
Psychological resilience, effective problem solving, upward spiral of feelings
What ate specific issues around illness?
Symptoms, treatment, pain, uncertain future, maintaining health, relationships, self-image
Sholtz findings of internal and external self-efficacy was?
Social support has greater benefit regardless of acceptance or comparison
Self-efficacy internal was mediated by coping
Illness as a cac crisis
Cognitive, adaptive and coping
Coping by denial or avoidance
Denial can be adaptive in short term but detrimental long term
Family what are the 3 stages of adaption
Resistance, restructuring and consolidation
What are the dimensions that helps with adaptation?
Cohesion, adaptability, communication
What are the benefits of caring
Increased adherence to treatment and self-care
Better psychological functioning
Reduced mortality and increased survival
Carer burden is
Emotional impact
Physical effects
Immunological
Positive
What are the benefits of mass media?
Wide audience
What are the limitations of media campaigns
Mass campaigns have shown little in changing behaviors
What are some of the approaches to maximizing the effectiveness in mass media campaigns
Refining communication
Fear messages
Target interventions
