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Perspectives Of Chronic Illness Flashcards

1
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Approximately what percentage of Canadians over 20 are living with at least one chronic condition

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50%

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2
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In 2012 what was the highest proportion of global disease

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Cardiovascular disease

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What fraction of deaths in Canada each year result from chronic diseases?

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2/3

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Illness

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Is the human experience of diease
-responses to condition

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Chronic illness

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Refers to experience of health problems that persist over extended periods of time

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Sick role

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Doctor is the expert and decides wether the individual is ill or not
-> the person must want to get well if not there is a benefit to getting sick

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Building self efficacy

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You need to gain mastery over a specific thing
-understand patient expertise and goals = interventions

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Outcome expectancy

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Belief that behaviour leads to the outcome

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Vicarious experience

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See others and become motivated
-support groups

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Efficacy expectancy

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Belief that they can do it

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Nurse must be sensitive to patients with chronic diseases concerning…

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-the variety of strategies and wether they are helpful or maladaptive
-patients may hide and conceal disease
-the disease may be visible or invisible

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Disability

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Difficulty in function at the body, personal or society levels
-one or more life domains

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Medical model of disability

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Disability is directly caused by disease, trauma, or other health conditions
-requires treatment from medical professionals

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Social model of disability

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Socially created problem, calling for political RESPONSE
-not enough ramps for wheelchair users

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Biopsychosocial model for disability

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Integration of medical and social

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Shifting perspectives model

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Perspective determine how people respond to the disease, themselves, caregivers and situations
-reality = these shift

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A perspective is representative of

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Beliefs, perceptions, expectations, attitudes and experience

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18
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Shifting perspectives model switches between

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Illness in foreground and wellness in the foreground

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Illness in the foreground

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Focus on sickness, suffering, loss and burden
-destructive
-protective function to show realness of disease
-helps person learn, reflect and come to terms with disease

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Wellness in the foreground

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Illness as opportunity or meaning for change
-revision ing what is normal
-health is good beside disease

-self is not diseased, body is the source of identity

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21
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The spoon theory

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Difference in being sick vs healthy, is having to make conscious decisions about simple life things that normally healthy people don’t worry about

22
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Morbitity vs morality

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Morbitity- rate of disease in a population

Mortality- rates of death

23
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The state of health is repentant upon

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Complex integration between social and economic factors
-determintents of health

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Signs vs symptoms

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Signs- objective
Symptoms- subjective

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Chronic illness

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Uncertain ethology, multiple risk factors, long latency, prolonged duration and non infectious origin

26
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Can acute and chronic illness be present at the same time

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Yes

27
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Comorbitity

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The presence of two or more chronic illnesses that are not related to each other

28
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Multimorbidity

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Simultaneous occurrence of several chronic medical conditions that may or may not be related to each other

29
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What are some of the negative outcomes of having multiple chronic diseases

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-decreased quality of life
-psychological distress
-longer hospital stays
-higher cost of care

30
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What is a major factor contributing to chronic illness

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Lifestyle
-substance use, high bp, physical inactivity, obesity

31
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Best buys

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Actions that should be undertaken to produce accelerated results in terms of lives saved and diseases prevented

32
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What are some examples of best buys

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-smoke free environments
-bans on tobacco
-restricting alcohol
-reducing salt in food
-decreased trans fat

33
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Risk factors of chronic disease

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-genetics
-aging
-lifestyle

34
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Illness behaviour

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Varying ways individuals respond to physical symptoms
-“sick role”

35
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Shared decision making

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Decision making process engaged in jointly by patients and their health care providers

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Outcome expectancy

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The individuals belief that a specific behaviour will lead to certain outcomes

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Efficacy expectancy

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The individuals belief that she or he is able to achieve the court once

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Vicarious experience

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Observation of others performances from which we learn through modelling and against which we measure our own performance

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Health related hardiness

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Buffers stress and allows people to experience a high degree of stress without falling ill

40
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Informal caregiver

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Anyone who provides care without pay and has personal ties to care recipient

41
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Caregiver burden

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Overall physical, emotional and financial cost of caregiving

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Illness trajectory

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Experimental pathway which the person with an illness progresses

43
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Dying

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Final days or weeks before death
-gradual/rapid shutting down of body processes

44
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Downward

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Illness course characterized by rapid or gradual physical decline

45
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Comeback

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gradual return to an acceptable way of life

46
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Crisis

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Critical or life threatening situation needing emergency treatment or care

47
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Unstable

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Period of instability to keep symptoms under control

48
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Stable

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Illness course and symptoms are under control

49
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Pretrajectory

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Genetic factors or lifestyle behaviours that place an individual or community at risk of development of chronic conditions

50
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Trajectory onset

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Appearance of noticeable symptoms
-period of diagnostic work up

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