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What is epidemiology?

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Study of distribution and determinants of health - in specified populations, and application to control health problems

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What is public health?

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Preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health - through organised efforts of society

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What are the 2 approaches of public health?

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Medical specialty

Population based - everyone involved

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What are the three steps in prevention of a disease?

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Primary - Stop the onset/remove the risks
Secondary - Stopping progression (early detection and treatment key)
Tertiary - minimising impact of established disease

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What is a communicable disease?

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one that is passed between people - infectious.

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Describe the chain of infection

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Infectious agent - lives in reservoir - has a portal of exit - has a mode of transmission - gets in via a portal of entry - to a susceptible host

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What are the different modes of transmission of an infectious agent?

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Direct - ie. direct contact, direct projection (large droplet spread)
Indirect - Vehicle borne, vector borne, airborne

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How does Sackett describe evidence based medicine?

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As the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values

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What steps do you take in evidence based medicine (5 A’s)

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Asses the patient
Ask the question
Acquire the evidence
Appraise said evidence
Apply with the patient
Self evaluate
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What is PICO? Why do you use it?

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To help you asses what to look for evidence about
P - person
I - intervention
C - comparison
O - Outcome
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What study type is best when looking at diagnosis?

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Prospective blind comparison

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What study type is best when looking at therapy/

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RCT

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What study type is best when looking at prognosis?

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Cohort study

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What study type is best when looking at Harm/Etiology?

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RCT

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What study type is best when looking at prevention of a diesease?

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RCT

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What study type is best when looking at clinical exams?

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Prospective blind comparison

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What study type is best when looking at cost benefit?

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Economic analysis

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What is the hierarchy of study design types?

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Meta analysis/ systematic review of RCT
RCT
Non randomised intervention/clinical studies
Observational studies
Analytically: (Cohort -> Case Control)
Descriptive ( self controlled Case series)
Ecological studies
Cross sectional studies
Case series and case reports

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What are the 3 schools of thinking that analyse suicide, and what are their main thoughts?

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Psychological - as an intentional act of an individual
Sociological - As a socially constrained act, or a meaningful act within a social group
Anthropological - As a culturally patterned act

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There were 7 psychological theories of suicide outlined int he lectures, what were they?

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Freud - unconscious intentions
Beck - cognitive model
Wenzel+Beck 2008 - Cognitive behavioural
Sneidman + Leenaars - Multidimensional
Diathesis-stess hypothesis
Self-regulatory theroy
Beaumister 1990 - Escape theory
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What is the basis of Freuds model of suicide?

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Motivated by unconscious intentions 
– Root cause is loss and rejection 
– A desire for self punishment 
– Has impaired organisation of experience 
– No coherent synthesis of experience
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Describe Beck’s cognitive model of suicide

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Cognitive structure : Polarised thinking: viewing the world in extreme ways with no intermediates
– Problem solving deficits : Inflexible, thinking in rigid categories
– Anticipation of the future:
• As suicidal ideation increases the future looks bleaker
• As suicidal ideation increases the future view is shortened with the person becoming absorbed in the present

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Describe Wenzel and Beck’s cognitive behavioural model of suicide

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– Associated with depression with the critical link being feelings of hopelessness
– Negative expectations
– Negative personal view
– Affective reaction is proportional to the labelling of an event/situation not to its true intensity
– Involuntary thoughts are treated as the only applicable thoughts (judgements become absolute)
– Only one possible solution (rigid thinking)
– Death is more desirable than life

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Describe Shneidman and Leenaars multidimensional model of depression

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– Unbearable psychological pain
– High degree of perturbation
– Associated with a traumatic situation
– Cognitive constriction (logic and perception)
– Focus is on escaping the pain using one ‘arbitrarily’ selected solution
– A desire to end conscious experience

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Describe the diathesis-stress hypothesis of suicide
It considers cognitive vulnerability as the key factor - lack of problem solving ability
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What are the 4 types of suicide described by Durkheim?
1. Egoistic – self-centred (under-integration) 2. Altruistic – for the good of others (over-integration) 3. Anomic – social isolation (under-regulation) 4. Fatalistic – no choice (over-regulation)
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What are the main anthropological thoughts on suicide?
Recognises suicide as a social meaning which varies between cultures (in many cultures suicide isn't seen as wrong). It is a socially patterned act that conveys a cultural meaning
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What are the 5 catagories personality types are divided into?
``` Neuroticism Extraversion Openness Agreeableness Conscientiousness ```
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What is neuroticism?
A disposition to experience more negative feelings and low self esteem
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If you are extraverted how will you be/
Outgoing, risk taking and cheerful
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If you have an open personality type how will you be?
Curious, interested in novel and unconventional things
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Someones locus of control can be internal or external, what does this mean?
Internal - guided by their personal decisions and efforts | External - guided by fate, luck, other people or external circumstances
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Who has developed theories of development - what are their brief outlines?
Piaget : internal cognitive structure provides individuals with a script of how to proceed in different situations. You develop through assimilation and accommodation. STAGES Vygotsky: Social cultural influence - Development of children is guided by adults. They need scaffolding, you learn in the ZPD: Zone of Proximal development. Erikson Development of personality happens by crisis - cathartic moments within individuals lives. (BUT too simplistic). Bates: Development is lifelong and Multidimensional & multidirectional. LIFE-SPAN.
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What is habituation?
Repeated stimulation = reduced response
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If you give a different stimulus to someone who is habituated what happens?
The habituation is eliminated
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What animal model to they use for models of learning?
Aplysia - sea slugs - gill and syphon reflex
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What is sensitization?
An inceased response due to a painful stimuli given at the same time as a habituated stimuli
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What is conditioning?
Associative learning - associations are made between one stimulus and another stimulus/outcome
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What is instrumental conditioning?
Involved doing a voluntary action to evoke a response
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What is operant conditioning?
When there are repeated operant responses with a schedule of responses
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What is blocking of a stimuli?
When 2 stimuli are given at once, the response will only be linked to one of them.
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What is overshaddowing of a stimulus?
When one stimulus is ignored due to a more salient stimulus
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What is simple Mendelian genetics?
Complete correlation between genotype and phenotype - genes are sufficient and necessary for the disease to occur
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What diseases follow simple medelian inheritance?
Huntington's Cystic fibrosis - autosomal recessive Duchenne musc. dystropy Familial hypercholesterolaemia (autosomal dominant)
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What is oligogenic or polygenic inheritance?
Dysfunction fo the genes is sufficient but not necessary for the disease to occur
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What is an example of a oligogenic inherited disease?
Alzhiemers
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What is complex or multifactorial inheritance?
Dysfunction in any one gene is neither necessary nor sufficient for a disease to occur Other factors involved - environmental, many genes...
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How does your behaviour towards health impact on your health?
Generating a biological change (ie. liver disease with alcohol) Changing exposure to health risks Early detection and screening
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What is the principle behind social learning?
People conform to groups - copy actions, swayed by others answers, feel less vulnerable.
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What study was an example of the strengeth of social learning?
Milgram's obedience study - giving electric shocks
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What is compliance?
The extent to which a persons behaviour (taking their medication) coincides with medical professionals advice
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What is adherence?
The extent to which a personals behaviour (taking medication) corresponds with medical professionals advice
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What is health inequality?
Difference in health status
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What is health inequity/
Unfair differences that are avoidable
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What is the inverse care law? Who coined it?
The availability of good medical care varies inversely with where it is most needed. Julian Tudor heart
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What did the marmot review find?
Disadvantage starts before birth and accumulates through life Action must start before birth
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What principles should be applied to any ethical question?
Principles to apply to an ethical question: - The principle of respect for autonomy - The principle of beneficence - The principle of non-maleficence (nb the dictum primum non nocere) - The principle of justice
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What is body image?
A persons perceptions thoughts and feelings about their body
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What are the 3 different body types?
Endomorph - chubby Mesomorph - Athletic Ectomorph - skinny
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What is cognitive fusion?
When an individual is dominated by their thoughts and allow these thoughts to control behaviour
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What 5 recommendations have been made to reduce obesity and eating disorders in adolescents?
1) Discourage unhealthy dieting 2) Promote a positive body image 3) Encourage more family meals 4) Talk less about weight 5) Address issues of stigmatisation
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What is the percentage of worldwide deaths from non-communicable diseases?
63% globally | 80% in developing countries younger people
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What are the general risk factors for non communicable diseases?
``` High BP Tobacco use Alcohol Raised blood glucose Decrease fruit and veg Raised cholesterol Obesity Physical inactivity ```
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Describe epidemiological transition
Changing patterns in death and illness
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What are the 3 phases of transition ofdisease, who described them?
Omran 1 - age of pestilence and famine 2 - Age of pandemics 3- Age of degenerative diseases and man
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What is DALY?
Disability adjusted life year
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What do DALYs take into account?
Time based measure Combines years lost due to premature mortality and years of life lost due to time lived in states of less than full health
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Who is affected during conflict?
Children - disrupts education, shelter, vaccinations Adults - Lose main wage earner, combat injuries, torture and rape Elderly - Unable/unwilling to move, medical resources redirected 5% deaths due to fighting directly.
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What are high conception rates associated with?
deprivation and health inequalities
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What adverse outcomes can occur to babies born from unplanned, teenage pregnancies?
Pre-term, low birth weight, Small for gestational age 15% of teenage pregnancies are planned - so risk of smoking and drinking high in first trimester Less likely to breastfeed
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What factors are related to high teen pregnancy rates?
Risky behaviors Education related (low attainment, disengagement, leaving school) Family/background (vulnerable groups, daughter of teenage mother, culture)
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How has medicine changed over its history? What are thr 3 stages it has gone through?
Bedside medicine Hospital medicine Laboratory medicine
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How has the concept of illness changed?
Total psuchomotor disterbance -> organic lesion -> biochemical process
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When was anaesthesia developed? Why did mortality rate increase after it for a while?
1840's - liston used ether. More complex operations were attempted Time constraint removed from agony Enabled penetrating below body surface - more infections and deaths.
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When were antiseptics introduced?
1865 - by Lister
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What is the null hypothesis?
H0 the statement being tested
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What is the alternative hypothesis?
H1 - What will be believed to be true if the null hypothesis is wrong
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What measure of association is used in Case control studies?
Odds Ratio = odds of cases being a smoker / odds of controls being a smoker
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What is the P value?
The probablity of getting the results you did given that the null hypothesis is true. if P value over 1 = significant
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What is the 95% confidence interval used for?
Calculated in stats software from odds ratio - if value range doesn;t include 1 = significant
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What is a case control study good at looking at?
Rare diseases | Typically retrospecitve
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What is the limitation of a case control study?
Prone to bias | Incidence cant be determined
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What is a cohort study good at looking at?
Rare exposures - multiple effects of one exposure incidence can be exposed typically prospective
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What is a type II error?
False negative. Beta error Medicine: Study finds the condition is not present (negative result), but in reality it is (positive). Type II error is failing to detect an effect that is present
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What is a type I error?
False positive - alpha error Medical: Study finds condition is present (positive) when in reality it isn't (negative) Type I error is detecting an effect that is not present
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What are the 3 types of bias?
Selection bias Exclusion bias Reporting bias
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How do you control bias?
Randomization and blinding
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How do you control random error?
Sample size and significance level
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How do you control confounding error?
Study design
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What is the prevalence?
Proportion of the population with a disorder
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What 2 scoring methods are used for depression?
ICD-10 and DSM
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What 3 domains does the bio-psycho-social model suggest causes depression?
Predisposing factors Precipitating factors Maintaining factors
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what are the 3 models of stress?
Stimulus model Response model Transactional model
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Describe the stimulus model of stress
Focus on the environmental conditions that cause a stress response - Avoidance as a technique?
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Describe the response model of stress
Focus on the response produced by the environment. Stimulus less important. Minimise the impact of the response?
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Describe the transaction model of stress
Transactional model - A process between the organism and the environment. Techniques to help - coping mechanisms?
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What are the 3 stages of stress?
Alarm - resistance - exhaustion
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What 2 routes activate the sympathetic nervous system?
SAM - sympathoadrenaomedullary axis - adrenaline | HPA - Hypothalamic-pirtuitary-adrenal axis - corticosteroids`
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What is the incidence rate?
The number of new cases of a disease over a period of time (usually a year)
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What is culmulative incidence?
Incidence measured over a period of time where the period of time is the same for each person under study
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what is Incidence density?
Incidence rate in a population where periods of observation are different for each person
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What is prevalence?
The number of people who have a disease in a population at a given time
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What is point prevalence?
The number of people with the disease at a specific point in time
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What is the absolute risk?
The risk that a person in the group will develop a disease = incidence rate In cohort studies
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What is the relative risk?
The ratio of incidence rate in an exposed group vs. an unexposed group RR = AR exposed group / AR unexposed group
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What is standardisation?
A set of techniques used to remove as much as possible the effects of differences in confounders (eg. age, sex, ethnicity) when comparing 2 or more populations
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What is Selye's theory of stress?
The stress response - general adaptation syndrome | The body's resistance to stress can only last so long before exhaustion sets in.
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Where is stress detected in higher animals first?
Cerebral cortex - actives sympathetic NS - prepares for physical activity and exertion
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What 2 parts of the Pons are important in the sypathetic stress response?
Locus coeruleus - synthesises noradrenaline | Raphe nucleus - serotonin production
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What is Eustress?
Positive cognitive response to stress
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What is distress?
Negative stress - when your level of arousal is too high or too low and you body/mind responds negatively to stressors
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Describe Lazarus's cognitive appraisal model
In order for a psycho-social situation to be stressful, it must be appraised as such - how you view a situation.
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What did Langer and Rodin discover about personal control and stress?
Those with more personal control had lower levels of stress - experiment with looking after a plant in a care home.
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When making decisions there are 3 main types of interpersonal conflict - what are they?
Approach-approach Avoidance-avoidance Approah-avoidance

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