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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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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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Parental Perception of Urgency of Illness

Pediatric Emergency Care, 2010
To assess parental perception of urgency of illness and compare this with an emergency department (ED) physician's assessment of the same.A prospective study was conducted on convenience sample of parents/legal guardians of 800 patients presenting to the pediatric ED.
Shiva, Kalidindi, Prashant, Mahajan, Ronald, Thomas, Usha, Sethuraman   +3 more
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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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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: 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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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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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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Illness perception

2015
Die vorliegende prospektive Querschnittstudie untersuchte den Zusammenhang zwischen subjektiven Krankheitskonzepten und adhärentem Verhalten bei der Basistherapie von Übergewicht und Adipositas. Dazu wurde das standardisierte Instrument IPQ-R (Illness Perception Questionaire – Revised) zur Messung subjektiver Krankheitskonzepte auf das Körpergewicht ...
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A Determination of Hopelessness and the Perception of Illness in Cancer

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2017
This study was performed with the objective of determining hopelessness and perception of illness in cancer patients. This was a descriptive and regressional study. The study was performed between January and June 2014 on 105 outpatients at the oncology clinic of Manisa Government Hospital in Turkey’s western.
Sevgi, Nehir, Nurgül Güngör, Tavşanli, Çiğdem, Özdemir, Tuğba, Akyol   +3 more
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