OBJECTIVE This study examined cardiovascular disease (CVD) illness perceptions and how they relate to depressive symptomatology among women and men. METHODS Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients at two hospitals were approached, and 661 consented to participate (504 men, 157 women; 75% response rate). Participants completed a survey including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) ...

objective: cancer creates a lot of stress and can significantly affect quality of life. the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of stage of disease, illness perceptions, unmet needs and fatigue in predicting the quality of life of patients with cancer. method: the sample consisted of 120 hospitalized patients in tehran's shohada hospital in 2014 that was selected purposefully....

BACKGROUND An emerging approach for investigating patient perspectives of their illness is the use of drawings. OBJECTIVE This scoping review consolidates findings from current literature regarding the use of drawings to explore patients' perceptions and experiences of their illness and treatment. METHODS Electronic databases (Medline, PubMed, Embase, PsychINFO, Cinahl, Art Index and Scopus...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate psychological barriers (illness perceptions, insulin beliefs, and coping strategies) to optimal insulin therapy among adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D), with a specific focus on gender differences and mode of treatment (insulin pump vs pen). METHODS A total of 105 males and females (12-20 years) participated in this study. The Brief Illne...

Typically, psychosomatic medicine has seen disease as an endpoint and has focused on the role of psychological factors in etiology or on the psychopathological consequences of illness. In contrast, the illness perception approach begins with the patient's experience of their illness and the main emphasis is on the patient's own model of their condition. Just as people construct representations ...

OBJECTIVE Emotional adjustment to cancer survivorship may be influenced by how patients interpret treatment side effects and other cancer-related experiences. The current study examined cognitive representations of illness, as conceptualized by the Self-Regulatory Model (SRM), in men treated for localized prostate cancer (PC). More severe PC perceptions were hypothesized to predict poorer emoti...

BACKGROUND Cross-cultural studies indicate that every culture has its own particular explanations for health and illness and its own healing strategies. The Konso people have always practiced indigenous medicine and have multifaceted accounts or multiple dimensions of illness perceptions and health-care beliefs and practices. This paper describes how perceptions of health and illness are instru...

Treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) within three months of symptom onset leads to significantly improved outcomes. However, many people delay seeking medical attention. In order to understand the reasons for this delay, it is important to have a thorough understanding of public perceptions about RA. The current study investigated these perceptions using the Self-Regulation Model (S...

Results Themes concerned illness perceptions, impactonthe family, and carers’emotional, cognitive and behaviouralresponses towards the illness. Parents perceived anorexia nervosa to be chronic and disabling.Carers blamed themselves as contributing to the illness andperceived themselves ashelpless in promotingrecovery.Mothers illustrated an intense emotionalresponse, whereas fathersproduced amor...