psychosocial aspects of patient illness Flashcards
What is Health?
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is the difference between Illness and Wellness?
Illness describes pain, disabilities, and pathology. Whereas Wellness is about thoughts, behaviours, and socials
What does being healthy mean?
Psychologically this means being happy and feeling good. It means eating and sleeping properly in regard to behaviour. It is the absence of illness that increases the chance of living longer.
What does being ill mean?
Being ill means not feeling normal
How is health measured?
Health is measured by how ill someone feels.
In regard to measuring health what is Morbidity?
Morbidity is the sufferance caused by a disease or medical condition and the rate of disease in a population can be used to measure health.
In regard to measuring health what is Mortality?
Mortality is the state of being subject to death and the rate of this can be used to measure death.
What are the psychosocial impacts of illness?
- Changes In identity
- Changes in location
- Changes in the role
- Changes in social support
- Changes in the future
What is the crisis nature of the illness?
Illness is unpredictable
The information can be unclear
A decision is needed quickly
There is little experience
What are the stages of diagnosis?
Shock, encounter reaction, retreat, acceptance, fighting
What are the psychological effects of hospitalization?
- Loss of privacy and independence
- Preoccupied with symptoms
- The concept that a non-demanding patient is good and a bad one is demanding
What are the NHS constitutional values?
- Working together for patients
- Respect and dignity
- Commitment to quality of care
- Compassion
- Improving lives
- Everyone counts
