Quiz #1 Flashcards
How is health psych defined?
field devoted to understanding psycho influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they get ill
what is considered psychological influences?
very broad term can be social, cog
ex: social pressure on health: I have to be super fit to support the soccer team.
how is health defined
a compelete state of psychical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
what are some focuses of health psychologist (4)
-health promotion and maintenance
-prevention and treatment of illness
-etiology
-health care system and health policy
health promotion and maintenance: 2
health eeating
exercise
prevention and treatment of illness: 2
managing stress
-prevention: getting screening cholesterol check
etiology; DEF
cause of diseases
how does etiology relate to psych?
depression can be a link factor to heart disease
Health Care system and healthy policy
food plate: how to visually see plate
Mind body relationship history:
-use to think evil spirit bad blood
-freud contributions
-psychosomatic: illness’s where its origin is psychological in nature like (stress can bring cancer)
what does bio-psycho-social model represent
bio-body
psycho-mind
social-social envio
bio-psycho-social model
health is impacted by all three
advantages of bio-psycho-social (4)
- there are other factors that can prevent illness
micro (biological component) Macro (social, psychological) Ex: skin cancer (micro) sunscreen (macro) - Mind-body cannot be separated. EX: did not suffer from heart burn but now that kids drive now im so stressed I get heart burn.
- health becomes something to achieve.
- all link to one another.
Clinical implications of the biopsychosocial model (3)
- diagnosis can occur at all times EX: even though patient is not under stress should talk to them about stress
- treatment at all level
- patient -provider relationship
VS. Biomedical Model
social and psychological are irrrelavent to illness and instead it is explained by bodily symptoms
biomedical problems: 3
- reductionistic (says there is only one cause)
- mind-body don’t impact each other.
why do we need health psychologists? 4
-advances in tech/rs
-expanded health care services
-increased medical acceptance
change patterns of illness: 2
acute: short term illness
chronic: longer than 6 months illness
need H.P to help cope with these illness
advances in tech
more tech means better able to rs genetic disorders and live longer
-health services because you can go to the doctor
what does theory focus on?
focus on practical problems - applied field
theory def:
set of analytical statements explained as a set of phenomena such as why people practice poor health
what should theories be able to do 2
-helo dvd hypo
-provide guidelines for how to do rs on an intervention
experiments allow
to show causation
how to do an experiment
create 2/more condition that differ from each other in exact ways
iv dv
correlational studies:
probelm
don’t show causation just showing 2 variables are related
survey- aren’t always truthful
Prospective designs
longitudinal measuring and go in to the future ex: measuring sleep and seeing how much they catch colds
retrospective designs
problem
looking in to the past EX: did you smoke
people can remember
epidemiology: def
how fast infectious/non-infec spead and how wide they spread
how is epidioomology measured
how many people they infect
Morbidity:
number of cases that exists in point in time
incidence:
of new cases per day
relative risk
risk to individual to acquiring diseases
mortality
of death to illness
proximal:
precipitating: what actually caused it
dital
pre-deposing cause
exposed to virus (proximal) - stress (distal)
