Illness perceptions and self-care behaviors among Chinese hospitalized adults with heart failure [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Illness perceptions, which are representations of illness or health threats formed in response to situational stimuli, are considered one of the most significant predictors of self-care behaviors.
Zehao Huang +3 more
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The impact of physical symptoms on depression and quality of life in patients with lung cancer: the moderating effects of illness perceptions and gender [PDF]
Health and Quality of Life OutcomesBackground Physical symptoms negatively affect lung cancer patients’ emotional well-being and quality of life. It remains understudied about what psychosocial factors may buffer the negative impact of physical symptoms.
Jinhuan Yang +8 more
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Exploring illness perceptions of multimorbidity among community-dwelling older adults: A mixed methods study [PDF]
Aging and Health Research, 2023 Background: Illness perceptions are individual beliefs or experiences about the nature and treatment of their illness. While extensive research exists on illness perceptions, less is known about illness perceptions of multimorbidity. Methods: The purpose
Ayomide Okanlawon Bankole +6 more
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Correlation between illness perceptions and self-reported degree-of-worry in somatic ill patients in emergency care: a Danish cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjectives The study aimed to investigate the correlation between illness perceptions and self-reported degree-of-worry (DOW) in patients presenting to the emergency department with acute somatic illness.Design A cross-sectional survey study collected ...
Thomas Kallemose +3 more
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The effects of illness perceptions on their medication attitudes among patients with schizophrenia
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Antipsychotics are the primary treatment for patients with schizophrenia. However, medication non- adherence rate of schizophrenia patients is high.
J.-Y. Syu, E.C.-L. Lin
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Hubungan kualitas hidup dan persepsi pasien tentang penyakit diabetes mellitus tipe 2 dengan komplikasi [PDF]
Pharmaciana, 2017 Quality of life (QoL) was developed as one of outcome measured for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. The QoL may decrease due to its complications. QoL may also relate to illness perceptions.
Setiyo Budi Santoso +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 ObjectivesAlthough studies shows that symptom clusters and illness perceptions are negatively associated with quality of life (QoL), it is unclear how these variables of cervical cancer patients who receive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) relate to ...
Lan Zhang +12 more
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Illness perception in tuberculosis by implementation of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire – a TBNET study [PDF]
SpringerPlus, 2014 How patients relate to the experience of their illness has a direct impact over their behavior. We aimed to assess illness perception in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by means of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ) in correlation with patients' demographic features and clinical TB score.
Pesut, Dragica P. +15 more
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BMC Women's Health, 2022 Background In the Middle East region, the incidence of breast cancer (BC) has substantially increased in the last years. Despite a considerable body of research about BC in Arab countries, how illness perceptions of healthy women about BC may influence ...
Maria J. Figueiras +2 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 Illness perceptions are associated with attitudes towards preventive behaviors and are therefore crucial to consider in the context of prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
Åsa Grauman +3 more
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