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PASS Lay Beliefs And Long Term Conditions Flashcards

1
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What are lay beliefs?

A

How with no special knowledge people understand and make sense of health and illness

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2
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What are the perceptions of health?

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Negative definition
Functional definition
Positive definition

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3
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What is the negative definition of health?

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Health = absence of illness

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4
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What is the functional definition of health?

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Health = ability to do certain things

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5
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What is the positive definition of health?

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Health is a state of wellbeing + fitness

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6
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The negative definition of health is common in what group?

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Lower socioeconomic

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7
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The functional definition of health is common in what group?

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Older people

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8
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The positive definition of health is common in what group?

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Higher socioeconomic

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9
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What definition of health is common in older people?

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Functional

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10
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What definition of health is common in lower socioeconomic groups?

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Negative

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11
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What definition of health is common in higher socioeconomic groups?

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Positive

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12
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What is illness behaviour?

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Activity of an ill person to define illness and seek help

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13
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What is sick role behaviour?

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Seeking formal health + action of patient

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14
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What is health behaviour?

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Activity to maintain health + prevent illness

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15
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What is an example of health behaviour?

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Higher socioeconomic groups norms to act to improve long term where as lower SE groups tend to choose short term relief

e.g. smoking
Higher SE - quit for long term benefit
Lower SE - smoke for short term relief

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16
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What influences illness behaviour?

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Culture
Visibility of symptoms
Extent to which symptoms impact life
Tolerance threshold
Frequency + persistence of symptoms
Information + understanding
Availability of resources
Lay referral

17
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How does information and understanding influence illness behaviour?

A

Does the patient have knowledge of the seriousness of their symptoms

18
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How does availability of resources influence illness behaviour?

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Transport
Time off work
Registered to GP

Low SE have less availability due to this

19
Q

What is lay referral?

A

Patients speaking to other before seeking formal help from healthcare professionals

20
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What does lay referral help us to understand?

A

Why people delay seeking help
How, why + when people consult a doctor
Use of health services
Use of alternative medications

21
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What is illness work?

A

The period leading up to getting the diagnosis/ dealing with physical manifestations of illness

22
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What are the sociological theories of long term conditions?

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Illness work
Everyday life work
Emotional work
Biographical work
Identity work

23
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What is everyday life work?

A

Action and process involved in managing the condition and its impact
Managing daily life

24
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What is normalisation?

A

Trying to keep pre-illness lifestyle intact or redesign new life as a ‘normal life’

25
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What theory of long term conditions relates to normalisation?

A

Everyday life work

26
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What is coping and strategic management?

A

Coping - dealing with illness
Strategy - actions + processes involved in managing condition + impacts

27
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What is emotional work?

A

Managing one’s emotions and others
‘Presenting as cheery self’

28
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What is biographical work?

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Reconstruction of biography
Link to feeling of ‘loss of self’

29
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What is identity work?

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The idea of maintaining an acceptable identity
Not letting illness become a defining aspect of identity

30
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What are the types of stigma?

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Discreditable + discredited
Enacted + felt

31
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What is discreditable stigma?
Example

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Non visible but if found out people may treat you differently
e.g. depression, HIV

32
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What is discredited stigma?
Example

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Physical visible characteristic
e.g. physical disability

33
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What is enacted stigma?

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Real experience of discrimination/prejudice

34
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What is felt stigma?

A

Fear of enacted stigma

35
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Describe the 2 features of lay epidemiology

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  • why and how illness happens
  • why it happened to a particular person at a a particular time
36
Q

Name the 5 different types of work involved for patients managing long term health conditions

A

Emotional
Illness
Everyday life
Biographical
Identity

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