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How is health psych defined?

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field devoted to understanding psycho influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they get ill

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what is considered psychological influences?

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very broad term can be social, cog

ex: social pressure on health: I have to be super fit to support the soccer team.

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how is health defined

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a compelete state of psychical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

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what are some focuses of health psychologist (4)

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-health promotion and maintenance
-prevention and treatment of illness
-etiology
-health care system and health policy

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health promotion and maintenance: 2

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health eeating
exercise

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prevention and treatment of illness: 2

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managing stress
-prevention: getting screening cholesterol check

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etiology; DEF

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cause of diseases

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how does etiology relate to psych?

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depression can be a link factor to heart disease

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Health Care system and healthy policy

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food plate: how to visually see plate

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Mind body relationship history:

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-use to think evil spirit bad blood
-freud contributions
-psychosomatic: illness’s where its origin is psychological in nature like (stress can bring cancer)

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what does bio-psycho-social model represent

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bio-body
psycho-mind
social-social envio

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bio-psycho-social model

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health is impacted by all three

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advantages of bio-psycho-social (4)

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  1. there are other factors that can prevent illness
    micro (biological component) Macro (social, psychological) Ex: skin cancer (micro) sunscreen (macro)
  2. 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.
  3. health becomes something to achieve.
  4. all link to one another.
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Clinical implications of the biopsychosocial model (3)

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  1. diagnosis can occur at all times EX: even though patient is not under stress should talk to them about stress
  2. treatment at all level
  3. patient -provider relationship
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VS. Biomedical Model

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social and psychological are irrrelavent to illness and instead it is explained by bodily symptoms

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biomedical problems: 3

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  1. reductionistic (says there is only one cause)
  2. mind-body don’t impact each other.
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why do we need health psychologists? 4

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-advances in tech/rs
-expanded health care services
-increased medical acceptance

18
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change patterns of illness: 2

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acute: short term illness
chronic: longer than 6 months illness

need H.P to help cope with these illness

19
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advances in tech

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more tech means better able to rs genetic disorders and live longer

-health services because you can go to the doctor

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what does theory focus on?

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focus on practical problems - applied field

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theory def:

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set of analytical statements explained as a set of phenomena such as why people practice poor health

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what should theories be able to do 2

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-helo dvd hypo
-provide guidelines for how to do rs on an intervention

23
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experiments allow

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to show causation

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how to do an experiment

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create 2/more condition that differ from each other in exact ways

iv dv

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correlational studies:

probelm

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don’t show causation just showing 2 variables are related

survey- aren’t always truthful

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Prospective designs

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longitudinal measuring and go in to the future ex: measuring sleep and seeing how much they catch colds

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retrospective designs

problem

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looking in to the past EX: did you smoke

people can remember

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epidemiology: def

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how fast infectious/non-infec spead and how wide they spread

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how is epidioomology measured

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how many people they infect

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Morbidity:

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number of cases that exists in point in time

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incidence:

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of new cases per day

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relative risk

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risk to individual to acquiring diseases

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mortality

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of death to illness

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proximal:

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precipitating: what actually caused it

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dital

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pre-deposing cause

exposed to virus (proximal) - stress (distal)

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