Merle Mishel

Question 1

• explains how people interpret and manage the
  uncertainty they experience when they are ill,
  especially when their diagnosis, symptoms, or
  treatment are unfamiliar.

Answer 1

Uncertainty in Illness Theory

Question 2

• symptoms of life-threatening illness— whether
  measured by medical tests or by how the person
  feels

Answer 2

SEVERE

Question 3

• is the inability to determine the meaning of
  illness-related events, or is unable to predict
  outcomes accurately

Answer 3

Uncertainty

Question 4

• is a person’s subjective interpretation of illness,
  treatment, and hospitalization. subjective way of
  understanding or interpreting their illness

Answer 4

Cognitive schema

Question 5

• is the form, composition, and structure of the
  stimuli that a person perceives, which are then
  structured into a cognitive schema.

Answer 5

Stimuli frame

Question 6

• is the degree to which symptoms occur with
  sufficient consistency to be perceived as having a
  pattern or configuration

Answer 6

Symptom pattern

Question 7

• is the degree to which a situation is habitual or
  repetitive or contains recognized cues.

Answer 7

Event familiarity

Question 8

• refers to the consistency between the expected
  and the experienced in illness-related events.

Answer 8

Event congruence

Question 9

• are the resources available to assist the person
  in the interpretation of the stimuli frame

Answer 9

Structure providers

Question 10

• is the degree of trust and confidence a person
  has in his or her health care providers

Answer 10

Credible authority

Question 11

• influence uncertainty by assisting the individual
  to interpret the meaning of events.

Answer 11

Social supports

Question 12

• are the information-processing abilities of a
  person, reflecting both innate capabilities and
  situational constraints

Answer 12

Cognitive capacities

Question 13

is seen as a neutral state, neither positive
nor negative, until it has been appraised by the
individual. Appraisal of uncertainty involves 2
processes:

Answer 13

Uncertainty

Question 14

• refers to beliefs constructed out of uncertainty
  that considers the favorable aspects of a
  situation.

Answer 14

Illusion

Question 15

• reflects biopsychosocial behavior occurring
  within persons’ individually defined range of
  usual behavior.

Answer 15

Adaptation

Question 16

• refers to the formulation of a new sense of order,
  in which uncertainty is accepted as the natural
  rhythm of life

Answer 16

New view of life

Question 17

• refers to a belief in a conditional world in which
  the expectation of continual certainty and
  predictability is abandoned.

Answer 17

Probabilistic thinking

Question 18

• refers to the evaluation of uncertainty using
  related, recalled experiences.

Answer 18

Inference