Lecture 4: Sympom And Illness Flashcards
How di Howard Leventhal define il mess belief?
Patient’s own implicit common sense belief about their illness
What are the characteristics of Illness cognitions?
Identity : label & associated symptoms
Cause: Biological psychological
Timeline: acute, chronic, cyclic
Cure/control: treatable, controllable by self or clinicians
Consequences: physical effects, social effects, emotional
What is Leventhal’s self-regulatory model (SRM) of illness behaviour?
Stage 1: Interpretation
Symptom perception
Social messages
Stage 2: Coping
Approach coping
Avoidance coping
Stage 3:Appraisal
Was my coping strategy effective?
What is Help seeking behaviour?
Help seeking behaviour refers to the process of deciding to get professional help for a health related problem.
According to the biomedical model help seeking relates to two factors?
Symptoms
Signs
What are the characteristics of Symptom Perception?
●Bodily data (partly “data driven)
●Mood (stress and anxiety)
●Cognitions (focus vs. distraction)
●Social context (medical school)
What are the odds of Illness beliefs?
● 5 dimensions (timeline, causes….)
●Formation of these beliefs helped by social messages from friends, family or the media
●Influenced by the individual’s own health history and expectations
What are costs and benefits of going to the doctor?
● Therapeutic
● Practical
● Emotional
● The sick role
What is the delay behaviour?
The tendency to avoid seeking medical care because symptoms go unnoticed, sickness seems unlikely, professional helps is deemed unnecessary, the individual procrastinates in making an appointment, or the perceived costs of treatment outweigh the perceived benefits
What is appraisal delay?
Symptoms go unnoticed
What is illness delay?
Sickness seems unlikely
What is Behavioural delay?
Professional help is deemed unnecessary
What is scheduling delay ?
The individual procrastinated in making an appointment
What is treatment delay?
The perceived costs of treatment outweigh the perceived benefits
How do health professionals make decisions?
(1) Accessing information about the patient’s symptoms
(2) Developing hypotheses
(3) Search for attributes
(4) Making a management decision
