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Module 9 - Managing Chronic/Terminal Illness Flashcards

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What happens immediately after a chronic disease is diagnosed?

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  • Patients often in state of crisis
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What is shock?

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  • Acute Stress Reaction
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Explain Shock

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  • Stunned, bewildered, behaving in automatic/detached way
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When is emotion-focused coping used for a chronic disease?

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  • Early on
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What plays a mixed role in the initial emotion-focused coping of a chronic disease?

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  • Denial
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What are the two common emotional responses when either testing for or receiving news of chronic disease?

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  • Anxiety
  • Anger
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When is anxiety especially high regarding chronic diseases?

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  • Awaiting test results
  • Receiving diagnosis
  • Awaiting procedures
  • Experiencing side effect of treatment
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When is anger common regarding chronic disease?

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  • Early response to diagnosis
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9
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What happens to cancer patients feelings of personal control?

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  • Decline in several months after diagnosis
  • Begins to increase after
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10
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What is Crisis Theory?

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  • Describes factors that influence how people adjust/cope after first learning they have chronic illness
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What types of adaptive tasks must people who are ill undergo?

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  • Task related to illness/treatment
  • Task related to general psychosocial functioning
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Explain the adaptive task related to the illness or treatment

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  • Coping with symptoms/disability
  • Adjusting hospital environment, procedure, treatment
  • Developing good relationships with practitioners
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Explain the adaptive tasks related to general psychosocial functioning for those who are ill

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  • Controlling negative feeling, positive outlook
  • Maintaining satisfactory self-image, sense of competence
  • Preserving relationships
  • PRepare for uncertain future
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What are some coping strategies for Chronic Illness?

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  • Denying/minimizing seriousness of issue
  • Seeking information about diagnosis/treatment
  • Learning to provide own medical care
  • Setting concrete, limited goals
  • Recruiting instrumental/emotional support
  • Considering possible future events
  • Gaining manageable perspective
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What did Dunkel-Schetter discover about what coping mechanisms were most usefull for cancer patients?

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  • Social support
  • Distancing
  • Positive Focus
  • Cognitive Escape/Avoidance
  • Behavioural Escape/Avoidance
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What are some maladaptive coping mechanisms associated with cancer patients?

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  • Rumination
  • Interpersonal Withdrawal
  • Avoidant Coping (e.g., denial)
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What is rumination associated with?

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  • Exacerbation of symptoms
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What is Interpersonal Withdrawal associated with?

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  • Loneliness and low relationship satisfaction
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What is Avoidant Coping associated with?

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  • Increased psychological distress
  • Exacerbate the disease process
  • Poor adjustment to illness
20
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What are the types of denial in cancer patients? What is their occurance rates?

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  • Denial of Diagnosis (4-47%)
  • Denial of Impact (8-70%)
  • Denial of Emotion (18-42%)
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Who was most likely to deny Cancer?

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  • Older patients (and men)
22
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Who reports higher levels of depression over time regarding chronically ill patients?

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  • People who feel self-blame
23
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When is stigma most common in cancers?

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  • Lung Cancer
24
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What does cancer stigma do?

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  • Increase depression
  • Reduce cancer screening
25
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How important is Human Animal Interaction to those with HIV/AIDs?

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  • Helps due to patients losing friends/family due to stigma
26
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What are adaptations?

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  • Process of making changes in order to adjust constructively to life’s circumstances
27
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What adaptations must individuals make when they enter a permanent change?

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  • Mastery of demands of managing disease
  • Minimizing physical limitations/disability
  • Preserving positive function
28
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Describe Quality of Life (QoL)

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  • Degree of excellence people appraise their lives to contain
29
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What is Quality of Life based on?

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  • Physical, psychological, vocational, and social functioning
30
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What is the emphasis placed on for quality life?

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  • Daily living
  • Sleeping, eating, going to work, and social activities
31
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What psychological interventions are used to manage chronic illness and disease?

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  • Psychopharmacological
  • Patient & Family Education
  • Individual or Family Therapy
  • Stress Management/Relaxation
  • Support Groups
32
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What are the psychosocial benefits of support groups?

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  • Improved mood
  • Reduced uncertainty
  • Improved self-esteem
  • Enhanced coping skills
  • Improved quality of life
33
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What is informal caregiving?

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  • Provision of physical and/or emotional care to a family or friend at home
34
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What are the 5 distinct care trajectories?

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  • Compressed Generational
  • Broad Generational
  • Intensive PArent Care
  • Career Care
  • Serial Care
35
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Explain Compressed Generational Care Trajectory

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  • Single, short period of care in later life, typically to family
  • Most common experience
36
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Explain Broad Generational Care Trajectory

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  • Long episode of care in mid-life
  • Then short episode of care later
  • Typically to friends, neighbours
37
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Explain Intensive Parent Care Trajectory

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  • Decade or more of mid-life providing care to parent
  • Often caring for more than 1 parent
38
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Explain Career Care Trajectory

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  • Very long first episode of care to a high-obligation
  • Close family member, relativley early age and lasting 2 decades or more-
39
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Explain the Serial Care Trajectory

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  • Lifelong pattern of caring for others
  • Often at same time
  • Begins mid-thirties
  • Spans more than 3 decades
40
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What factors into caregiver stress?

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  • Reduced time
  • Overwhelmed
  • Disrupted Sleep
  • Poor stress management
  • Stress prevention
  • Degrading social relationships
  • Poor support
41
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What are the benefits of caregiving?

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  • Provide best care
  • Stay connected
  • Rewarding sense of accomplishment
  • Sense of meaning
  • Passing on a tradition
  • Learning new skills
42
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What is the Sandwich Generation

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  • Those caring for both older parents and their own children
43
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How does each terminal disease’s stress change?

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  • Unique
44
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What does stress from terminal illness depend on?

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  • Symptoms
  • Effects of treatment
  • Prognosis (survival time)
  • Social Factors
45
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When do patients with terminal illness show optimistic attitudes?

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  • Early stages
46
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What do people who feel they might get a miraculous recovery do?

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  • Choose aggresive care, even if futile
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