MCQ semester 2 exam Flashcards
how does the economic model address deaths as?
suicide
according to the economic model, how can life be postponed?
if more resources are invested in prolonging life
in what model is the patient not responsible for their condition?
biomedical
what is the only cause in biomedical model?
biological factor; virus, pathogen
what are the 4 factors which affect decisions in the health belief model?
- percieved susceptability
- percieved severity
- percieved benefits and barriers of treatment
- cues to action
for someone to acknowledge a health problem, what 2 things must they think in terms of the health belief model?
- percieved as severe
2. benefits outweigh barriers
2 theories of health behaviour
- health belief model
2. theory of planned behaviour
according to the theory of planned behaviour, what 3 things are our intentions shaped by?
- attitudes toward behaviour
- subjective norms
- behavioural control
what is cognitive dissonance? give an eg
holding 2 cognitive opinions which are psychologically insonconsistent and cause tension
smoking is bad - but i still do it
what are todays stressors?
psychological - heavy workload
what is psychoneuroimmunology?
study of how psychological factors can affect the immune system
In the stressful disposition study, what traits did cardiac patients share?
- male
- impatient
- ambitious
- competitive
which personality type has a suggested higher associated risk of heart disease & high blood pressure?
type A
describe traits of personalality B
laid back, easy going, relaxed, not ambitious
describe traits of personalality C
obeys norms helpless, hopeless lack assertiveness suppression of strong emotion (anger) avoids conflict lack of control
what scale measures stress using stressful life events?
social readjustment rating scale
what score on the SRRS gives an 80% stress score?
> 300
3 weaknesses of the SRRS?
- correlation is not causation
- doesnt include daily stressors
- individual differences
3 components of depression
- cognitive
- physiological
- behavioural
what is a coping strategy for women who have depression?
admitting the problem to help the situation
who did a study about learned helplessness?
Gross
what is learned helplessness?
when you try but you keep failing so you give up
most popular treatment for anxiety and depression
Cognitive behavioural therapy
what theory is the CBT based on ?
ABC
a) activating event
b) individual beleifs
c) individual emotions
3 roles of Public Health England
- health promotion
- health protection
- healthcare improvement
who wrote the social model to health?
Dahlgreen & whitehead
5 layers of social model to health
- age, gender
- individual lifestyle factors
- social & community networks
- structural factors
- environmental factors
what is functionalism?
everyone working together
what is marxism/conflict theory?
conflict between the classes; capitalists & workers
which health model does the marxist theory support?
biomedical
in what areas is there a higher rate of physical & mental illness?
higher levels of inequality from rich to poor
what condition cant the sick role be adapted to?
chronic conditions
what is the medicalisation thesis?
medical professionals are defining more behaviours as medical issues - this dominates over our lives
who wrote the theory of iatrogenesis?
ivan ilich
what is the theory of iatrogenesis?
harmful & detrimental effects that medical interventions can have on people
what is clinical iatrogenesis?
direct harm from treatment, drugs etc
what is social iatrogenesis?
blind belief in HCP. patients dont take responsbility.
what is cultural iatrogenesis?
people cannot cope with normal conditions that cause pain/suffering - turn to medical treatments
3 biographical disruptions caused by chronic illess
- self -identity
- future plans
3, everyday life
model for coping strategy
self-regulatory model of illness behaviour
3 stages of self-regulatory model
- interpretation
- coping
- appraisal
what is mental health? (4)
- realising own ability
- work productivily
- cope with normal stressors
- contribute to community
what is ill mental health?
alterations in thinking, mood or behaviour associated with stress/ impaired functioning
when does stress become distress?
- lasts too long
- occurs too often
- too severe
5 types of depressive conditions
- seasonal affective disorder
- postnatal
- bipolar
- major depressive
- dysrhythmic
which type of depressive condition is continious
dysrthythmic
what type of disorder is OCD
anxiety
4 types of anxiety disorder
- panic
- general anxiety
- phobias
- social
what is PTSD?
post traumatic stress disorder
what is shizophrenia
a discrepancy between thinking and feeling
which 2 places is shizophrenia more common?
- city
- minor ethnic groups
2 groups of shizophrenia
+ve (acute) and -ve (chronic)
which type of schiz has more dramatic symptoms?
+ve
which type of schiz causes the most problems and is difficult to treat?
-ve
what is eugenics?
improving the human population by breeding those with desirable characteristics
what year did the universal declaration of human rights come about?
1948
what year was the NHS founded?
1948
In verbal exchanges, the percentage of the meaning that is commonly lost is:
40-60%
In healthcare globally the allocation of resources is based on:
the consumer willingness to pay
In Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, in the pre-operational stage a child:
influenced by how things look rather then logical reasoning
what type of care are ambulatory trusts?
secondary
Spatial problems, a symptom of dementia, is referred to as:
apraxia
what is direct discrimination?
treating someone less favourably
what is indirect discrimination?
putting someone at a disadvantage compared to others
what are aphasia, agnosia, apraxia symptoms of ?
dementia
what is aphasia
language problems
what is agnosia?
knowledge problems
what is apraxia?
skilled action/spatial problems
which are neurotic plaques?
abnormal amounts of protein
cause of alzheimers disease
cerebral atrophy & neurotic plaques
major symptoms of alzheimers
memory/language
what are lewy bodies?
abnormal structures in nerve cells in brain
what type of dementia arises from focal damage to the frontal and temporal lobes?
Pick’s disease
what dementia has symptoms of hallucination?
Lewy bodies
cause of korsakoff’s syndrome
excessive alcohol intake
dementia with symptoms of emotion and social functioning
Pick’s
cause of frontal-temporal lobe dementia?
degeneration of frontal tobe
major symptoms & cause of vascular dementia
symptoms = concenetration + communciation
cause: problem with blood flow to the brain = due to stroke, hypertension + diabetes
dementia with symptom of personality/emotion
frontal temporal
what does damage to the frontal lobe cause- dementia?
repetitive actions
what does damage to the occupital lobe cause- dementia?
visual
what does damage to the temporal lobe cause- dementia?
difficulties with skilled actions