Managing Illness Flashcards
Define self-care
- everyday living
- care taken towards their own health well being
- includes the care extended to children, family friends and community
- stay fit, maintain good physical and mental health, prevent illness/accidents
- care for minor ailments/chroninc conditions
List, explain and give examples to illustrate the 4 components of Barofsky’s model of the functions of self-care
- restorative - alleviate illness
- reactive - alleviate symptoms
- preventative - prevent disease
- regulatory - regulate body processes
Give examples of factors which have contributed to the rise in self-care
- internet use
- reduce NHS costs
- expert patients
- technology
- healthism/consumerism
- definition of health and illness
- changing beliefs about medical power and expertise
- OTC medication
- increase in the number of people with chronic disease
Define master status
the social position, which is the primary identifying characteristic of an individual
Whether ascribed of achieved, overshadows all other social positions of the status set in most or all situations e.g.
person
patients
person with high BP
patient with high BP
person/patients will multiple co-morbidities of which high BP is one
person/patient with high BP and other co-morbidities
Compare and contrast the role of self-care in acute and chronic illnesses
Acute
- ongoing
- cure expected
- QOL of life highly depended on professional care, short-term acute services
- healthcare professional has higher knowledge and power
- short-term goals
- compliance expected
Chronic
- episodic
- incurable
- QOL highly dependent on patients and professionals, ongoing support services
- patient has greater knowledge
- short term goals set to meet long term outcomes
- compliance and selfrelience expected
Describe the 12 self-management tasks in chronic disease
- recognising and responding to symptoms
- using medications
- managing acute episodes and emergancies
- maintaining good nutitrion
- maintaining exercise
- not smoking
- relaxation and stress-reducing techniques
- interacting appropriately with health care providers
- seeking information and using community resources
- adapting work and other role functions
- communicating with significant others
- managing the negative emotion and psychological responses to illness