Lecture 3_ Health promotion and Adherence Flashcards

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What are factors which influence health adherence?

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  • social and economic factors (access, support)
  • health care team/system
  • characteristics of the disease (readily identifiable changes)
  • disease therapies (complexity)
  • patient related factors
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What are factors contributing to poor adherence?

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  • mood disorders (possibly perceptiones)
  • financial situation
  • social support
  • lack of organisation or routine around cues e.g. putting water next to bed to remind you to take tablets
  • misunderstanding of what is required of them
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Tell me about the intervention by Pyne et al (2014) which aimed to improve adherence to antipsychotic medication

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  • BFM checklist (barriers, facilitatiors, motivation)
  • designed to assist clients and health professionals
  • extended health belief model
    by adding in the patients preferences and experiences
  • had the pt fill out the BFM checklist, received adhererence progress notes and handouts, discuss progress notes and handouts with the provides, implement adherence tips associated with patient- identified barriers
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What was the outcome of the Pyne et al study?

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  • medications adherence - 1 item patients self-report over past 4 weeks
  • PANSS (positive and negative syndrome scale)
  • adherence improved at 6 months. no difference at 12 months
  • pts stated checklist was too long
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What were the tips for adherence provided during the intervention process of the Pyne et al study (may not need to know this)

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  • specific behavioural strategies (e.g. placing medications near another iteam used daily - toothbrush, pillboxes)
  • environmental supports (alarms, cues)
  • social supports (friends, family remind)
  • cognitive strategies (e.g. reframing schoziphrenia as a chronic disease similar to diabetes, linking adherence to times of health or happiness)
  • 18 adherence top handouts were creates
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Tell me about the intervention process in the Pyne et al study (aiming to help improve adherence to antipsychotics)

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  • adherence tips - operationalised change objective to address patient- identified barriers
  • patient-identified facilitators and motivators - acknowledged and reinforced by HP
  • supplement with questions to generate discussion and clarify what patient means when endorsing a given barrier
  • used MI principles: helped client generate a list of options for dealing with barriers, discuss costs/benefits, avoid power struggles, connect client-identified goals with medication adherence
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What are “lifestyle diseases”?

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  • cancer
  • cerebrovascular disease (CVD)
  • type 2 diabetes
  • stroke
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What do we know about the relationship between mental health concerns and nutritional intake?

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Those with mental health issues:

  • LESS LIKELY TO: eat daily fresh fruit or fruit juice, fresh vegetables and salad, meals made from scratch
  • MORE LIKELY TO: eat daily chips, chocolate, pre-prepared meals and takeaways
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What are the benefits of exercise?

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  • PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS: reduced anxiety and stress, improved mood, body image and self-esteem
  • cognitive and social: older adults, children and adolescents
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What were the findings from the US study regarding meeting PA guidelines?

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  • only 20.6 met PA guidelines
  • more males than females met guidelines
  • 18-25 years had highest participation rates
  • > 65 years lowest participation rates
  • low education group had fewer meeting guidelines
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What are the possible factors for why we’re not meeting PA guidelines?

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  • relative socioeconomic disadvantage: least disadvantages more likely to have done sufficient PA compared with most disadvantaged quintile
  • health status: those with “excellent” health more likely to have done sufficient PA compared to “poor” self-assessed health
  • smoking status: ex-smokers/never smoked 1.2 times more likely to have done sufficient PA compared with current smokers
  • BMI: underweight/normal weight more likely to have done sufficient PA compared with obese pop
  • sedentary occupations: those 22 hours/wk sitting for work
  • watching tv 13 hours a week
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How does sleep affect health status?

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  • reduced sleep sleep related to weight gain, increased calories consumption,
    disrupted hormones, neurological changes and decreased energy expenditure
  • lack of sleep associated with negative health outcomes
  • average reported sleep time is 7 hours, 12% . sleep less than 5.5 hours, 8% sleep > 9 hours, 76% sleep less than 5.5 hours report frequent daytime impairments or sleep-related symptoms
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What is the relationship between sleep and mental illness?

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  • disrupted sleep common (e.g. inability to get to sleep)
  • pharmacotherapy may make this better, worse or no effect on sleep
  • sleep problems common with comrobid physical health associated problem and or mental disorder
  • associated with functional impairment and role disability
  • sleep hygiene intervention
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What do we know about cancer screening and mental health

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  • ppl with mental health 30% more likely to die from cancer than general population
  • low uptake of nationally offered cancer screening tests by ppl with mental illness
  • existing screening available - breaskt
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What were the themes affecting screening uptake in the UK cancer screening and mental health study?

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  • lack of knowledge of screening programmes (service users and healthcare providers)
  • service users’ belief and concerns about cancer screening
  • practical issues - getting to the screening sites
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What were the barriers discovered in the UK cancer screening and mental health study?

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  • Lack of integrated care - mental health staff do not know if someone is overdue for a test and cancer screening is often not considered.
    Service user:
    healthcare providers)
  • information processing problems screening process aggravates symptoms travel difficulties vary between individuals.
  • Screening professionals motivated to help, but may lack time or training to manage mental health needs.
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What do we know about smoking and mental illness?

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• Smoking is a key modifiable risk factor that contributes to excess mortality in individuals with mental illness
• Smoke more heavily and extract more nicotine from cigarettes than smokers without mental health problems
• Up to 70% of ppl with MI smoke
• % smokers in MI remained stable despite overall
population rates decreasing
• Moderate to high level of interest in quitting in MI populations

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What do we know about physical comorbidity and mental health?

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  • individuals with severe mental disorders have a reduced life expectancy compared to general population
  • mortality rate x2 general population
  • mortality gap due to higher prevalence of CVD, type 2 diabetes, obesity
  • T2DM requires ongoing careful management: challenge and risk factors for ppl with severe mental illness
  • 1 out of 10 with severe mental disorders have T2DM
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What are physical comobridities and mental health risk factors?

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  • commencement of psychotropicss at young age
  • psychotropic polypharmacy and inadequate monitoring of side effects
  • may lack awareness/insight of the health impacts of obesity
  • may be less motivated to weight loss/healthy eating
  • social isolation may trigger excessive eating as a compensatory mechanism
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What are factors related to reduced life expectancy for affected individuals living with physical co-morbidity and mental health?

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AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL:
• reluctance to seek for physical care
• tendency to adopt unhealthy lifestyle behaviours (heavy
smoking, low levels of physical activities, sedentary behaviours)
• inappropriate food intake and poor diet
• alcohol or drug abuse
CLINICIAN:
• medical care given is lower than that provided to people with physical diseases
• e.g., screening for CVD risk factors in these individuals is very rare
• Need to improve physical healthcare provided to people with severe mental disorders
• Need interventions to modify unhealthy lifestyle behaviours