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Illness perceptions among cancer survivors

Supportive Care in Cancer, 2015
The purpose of the study is to document in Hong Kong Chinese cancer survivors cross-sectional associations between illness perceptions, physical symptom distress and dispositional optimism.A consecutive sample of 1036 (response rate, 86.1%, mean age 55.18 years, 60% female) survivors of different cancers recruited within 6 months of completion of ...
Fielding, R, Lee, C, Ng, A, Tin, SPP, Sez, WK, Soong, I, Lee, VHF, ZHANG, N, Lam, WWT, Tsang, WHJ, Chan, KKL   +10 more
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Parental Perceptions of Childhood Illness

Journal of Asthma, 1991
This article takes parental perception as the starting point of an analysis of the relationship between ill children, their families, and their doctors in the handling of a child's illness. A modified version of Creer, Marion, and Creer's Asthma Problem Behavior Checklist, adapted to suit Italian conditions, was used.
G, Peri, E, Molinari, A, Taverna
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The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2006
This study evaluates the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief IPQ), a nine-item scale designed to rapidly assess the cognitive and emotional representations of illness.We assessed the test-retest reliability of the scale in 132 renal outpatients.
Elizabeth, Broadbent, Keith J, Petrie, Jodie, Main, John, Weinman   +3 more
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Musicians’ illness perceptions of musculoskeletal complaints

Clinical Rheumatology, 2013
The purpose of this study is to know the views of people about their illness, i.e., illness perceptions, determine coping strategies, and outcome. Previous research suggests a higher prevalence and a different perception of musculoskeletal complaints between musicians and nonmusicians.
Kok, L.M., Vlieland, T.P.M.V., Fiocco, M., Kaptein, A.A., Nelissen, R.G.H.H.   +4 more
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Personal perception of chronic illness

Home Care Provider, 1999
Nurses caring for patients in the home must see them as a complex collection of many parts that require a holistic approach. With the plethora of therapies blending the relationship between mind and body, patients are seeking to be treated as a whole person rather than a physical illness.
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Illness perceptions

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2010
Purpose of reviewOutcome in asthma is determined not only by pulmonary function or other biomedical characteristics. An important determinant of asthma outcome is illness perceptions: patients' subjective beliefs and emotional responses to their illness.
Kaptein, Ad A., Klok, Ted, Moss-Morris, Rona, Brand, Paul L. P.   +3 more
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Perceptions of illness and healing

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1973
Abstract Patients, physicians, scientists and public health officials hold variant perceptions of the processes of illness, injury and unnecessary death that afflict human populationd. As these different role performers in the field of health care interact, numerous conflicts arise because the full set of operating values and assumptions are not ...
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Patients’ perception of their depressive illness

Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2003
Perception of illness has been described as an important predictor in the medical health psychology literature, but has been given little attention in the domain of mental disorders. The patient's Perception of Depression Questionnaire (PDIQ) is a newly developed measure whose factor structure and psychometric properties were evaluated on a sample of ...
Rachel, Manber, Andrea S, Chambers, Sabrina K, Hitt, Cynthia, McGahuey, Pedro, Delgado, John J B, Allen   +5 more
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Illness perceptions in patients with fibromyalgia

Patient Education and Counseling, 2009
Former studies in chronic diseases showed the importance of patients' beliefs and perceptions. The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire was developed to assess these illness perceptions. Our goal was to investigate psychometric properties of the IPQ-R for Fibromyalgia Dutch language version (IPQ-R FM-Dlv) and to describe illness perceptions of ...
Van Ittersum, M. W., van Wilgen, C. P., Hilberdink, W. K. H. A., Groothoff, J. W., van der Schans, C. P.   +4 more
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Somali Refugees’ Perceptions of Mental Illness

Social Work in Health Care, 2015
Nearly 13% of the U.S. population is comprised of foreign-born individuals, with Somalis constituting one of the largest resettled groups. Research suggests that, among Somali refugees, rates of mental illness are high. Yet research shows Somalis underutilize mental health services.
Joanna E, Bettmann, Deb, Penney, Pamela, Clarkson Freeman, Natalie, Lecy   +3 more
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