Module 2 Flashcards
Who investigated the different ways people react to physical symptoms and the psychological and cultural factors affecting such reactions
David Mechanic
The four basic questions and individual needs to answer about illness behavior
- What is wrong?
- Where care can be obtained.
- When the measure will be obtained.
- How the measure will be applied or implemented
Easing the pain through alternative medications like herbal medication
Informal Care
Easing the pain through medication via physician diagnosis
Formal Care
- Blood in the urine, common in males
- Can indicate damaged kidneys
Hematoria
Hormone that produces hemoglobin in RBCs
Erythropoietin
To determine if donors are compatible with the receiver
Tissue Typing
Disease that can be treated
Acute
Irreversible diseases that cannot be treated
Chronic
Kidney function test
BUN and Creatinine
The Five stages of Illness Behavior
- Symptom Experience
- Assumption of Sick Role
- Medical Care Contact
- Dependent Stage
- Recovery and Rehabilitation
interference with normal role functioning, subjective, and not easily quantifiable.
Symptom
Measurable changes of physiologic functioning and are detectable using diagnostic procedures
Sign
Three aspects of symptom experience
- Physical Experience
- Cognitive Aspects
- Emotional Response
when the client feels that “something is wrong” but he is not able to diagnose the problem.
Symptom Experience
A client acknowledges the presence of health disturbance
Assumption of Sick Role
means a person may call upon other individuals for aid in identifying an illness, for suggestions about treatment, and for recommendations of competent help.
Lay consultation/ Lay-referral system
client seeks expert’s opinion as well as treatment within the healthcare system
Medical Care Contact
Client become dependent upon health care professionals
Dependent Stage
symptoms of illness starts to subside and the person starts regaining original health status
Recovery and Rehabilitation
“the combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational, and vocational measured for training and retraining the individual to the highest possible level for functional ability”
rehabilitation
the act of regaining or returning toward a normal or healthy state
recovery