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Aging and the Perception of Illness

Research on Aging, 1984
The purpose of these studies is to learn more about how aging and illness are perceived by assessing cognitive and emotional representations of illness, coping behaviors and perceived efficacy of coping behavior. Age-related differences were found in emotional representations of illnesses, and in expectations of coping ability. Older participants also
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Illness Perceptions: A New Paradigm for Psychosomatics?

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1997
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.
J, Weinman, K J, Petrie
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Illness perceptions in Greek patients with cancer: a validation of the Revised‐Illness Perception Questionnaire

Psycho-Oncology, 2009
AbstractObjective: The Revised‐Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ‐R) assesses illness perceptions according to Leventhal's self‐regulatory model. The aim of this paper is to present findings on the reliability and validity of the IPQ‐R in a population of Greek cancer patients.Methods: A total of 206 patients completed a Greek translation of the IPQ ...
Zoe, Giannousi, Irene, Manaras, Vassilis, Georgoulias, George, Samonis   +3 more
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Mental Patients' Perceptions of Illness Etiology

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1974
By means of a questionnaire, the author studied hospitalized mental patients' perceptions of the factors contributing to their illness in terms of the economic, family, and social problems they experienced. Childhood problems of all types were reported and connected to illness less frequently than were adult problems.
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Illness perceptions, risk perception and worry in SDH mutation carriers

Familial Cancer, 2013
Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) mutation carriers are predisposed for developing paragangliomas. This study aimed to explore illness perceptions, risk perception and disease-related worry in these individuals. All consecutive SDHB and SDHD mutation carriers followed at the Department of Endocrinology of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), a ...
Hulsteijn, L.T. van, Kaptein, A.A., Louisse, A., Biermasz, N.R., Smit, J.W.A., Corssmit, E.P.M.   +5 more
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Health and Illness Perceptions

2012
AbstractThis chapter describes the contents and structure of subjective perceptions of health and illness, which are coherent theories in which individuals’ health-related knowledge is integrated and that then serve to guide their coping with health issues as part of dynamic self-regulation processes that take place over time. These perceptions are not
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Patients’ Perceptions of Their Illness

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2012
A patient constructs a cognitive representation of his or her illness that guides behavior aimed at managing that illness. Patients’ models of their illness share a common structure made up of beliefs about the cause of an illness, the symptoms that are part of the condition, the consequences of the illness for the patient’s life, how the illness is ...
Keith J. Petrie, John Weinman
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Illness perception and factors affecting the illness perception in patients with breast cancer

2020
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Karabulutlu, E. Yilmaz, Karayurt, O., Gursoy, A., Kosgeroglu, N., Avci, I. Aydin, Tuna, A., Karaman, S.   +6 more
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Illness Cognitions and Perceptions

2020
Holly Rau, Paula Williams
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Rural Leaders' Perceptions of Mental Illness

Psychiatric Services, 1971
W K, Bentz, J W, Edgerton, W G, Hollister   +2 more
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