Session 3: Lay Beliefs & Sociological Approaches To LTCs Flashcards
What are the 3 types of perceptions of health?
Negative, functional and positive
What is the negative definition of health?
Absence of illness
What is the functional definition of health?
Ability to do certain things
What is the positive definition of health?
State of well-being and fitness
What are the 3 influences of lay beliefs on behavior?
- Health, illness and sick role behavior
How do lay beliefs impact health behavior?
Higher social class more likely to have positive definition of health, they focus on long term-investments so healthy habits are rational choices. Disadvantaged focus on improving immediate environment so bad habits are rational choices.
What are the 8 factors that impact illness behavior?
Culture Visibility of symptoms Extent to which symptoms disrupt life Frequency and persistence of symptoms Tolerance threshold Information and understanding Availability of resources Lay referral
What is lay referral?
Seeking advice from other lay people prior to seeking help from health care professionals
What are the 3 broad groups of people who don’t adhere to treatment?
- Deniers and distances
- Acceptors
- Pragmatists
What are the 5 areas of work of LTCs?
- Illness work
- Everyday life work
- Emotional work
- Biographical work
- Identity work
What are the 3 forms of illness work?
- Getting a diagnosis can be long, unpleasant and shocking
- Managing the symptoms physically, emotionally and socially
- Self management is difficult
What are the 3 forms of everyday life work?
- Coping - cognitive process of dealing with illness
- Strategy - actions and processes involved in managing condition and impact
- Normalization - keeping their life previously or making a new normal
What are the 2 forms of emotional work?
- Protecting emotional well being of others
2. Impact on role in family
What is biographical work?
Loss of self, biographical disruption due to chronic illness
What is identity work?
Affects how people see themselves, illness can become the defining aspect of identity
