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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Illness Experience"”.
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An "inside story" : the illness experience of women with breast cancer
This study explores the illness experiences of five women with breast cancer. The literature on psychosocial aspects of breast cancer among women is reviewed and limitations noted. A medical anthropological approach to the study of illness and health care is outlined. The importance of …
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Leukemia and bone marrow transplantation : personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience
… the personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience of individuals who had been diagnosed with leukemia, and undergone BMT, and to explore and describe how the individuals' explanatory model of health and illness differs from the professional biomedical model of health care. A …
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COVID-19 and serious mental illness: Experience from a psychiatric hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
… of COVID-19 in patients with severe mental illness (SMI) admitted to a specialist psychiatric hospital in South Africa between 1 April 2020 and 30 September 2021. Setting: Valkenberg Hospital (VBH), a psychiatric hospital in Cape Town. Method: Demographic and clinical information were …
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The Voice of people living with mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) disease: a grounded theory to understand the illness experience and support needs of people living with mycobacterium ulcerans disease in a rural district of central Ghana.
… late. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of people living with Buruli ulcer in a rural district in central Ghana in order to understand their diagnosis and support needs. The study was qualitative in design and used Glaser‟s version of grounded theory. It consisted of …
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Living with and beyond Cushing’s disease
… condition persist. Literature on the subjective experience of Cushing’s disease focuses on the impact of the condition on Quality of Life (QoL), and qualitative first-person research on lived experience is scarce. The aim of this study was to shed light on the phenomenon of living with and beyond …
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The Role of a Medical Family Therapist: An Ecological Systems Look at Pediatric Illness
… care team when working with serious pediatric illness. Seven participants from three different health care settings were interviewed. Results were organized within the ecological systems framework (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) according to the various ways participants became a part of the family's …
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Advance care planning conversations: the family perspective
… and filled with uncertainty. Part of this illness experience includes making end-of-life (EOL) care decisions. Many families are unprepared to make such decisions. Advance care planning (ACP) creates an excellent context for laying the groundwork for these emotionally charged conversations. …
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The effects of family communication patterns during the middle phase of Alzheimer's disease
… between family communication about the illness experience of middle phase Alzheimer's Disease and caregiver depression were examined in this study of 29 primary caregivers and their family members. Lag sequential analyses and repetitive sequence analyses were conducted on observational …
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… and physicians in the amelioration of the illness experience. Affect theory, especially as described by Massumi, Stern, Sointu, Damasio and Frank, employs the concepts of "the virtual", embodiment, and "vitality" in examining the dynamics, and enhanced potential for healing, of the clinical …
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Rejection Sensitivity and Social Support as Predictors of Peer Victimization among Youth with Psychiatric Illness
… in a sample of adolescents with psychiatric illness. Participants included 43 adolescents, aged 12-18 with diverse psychiatric diagnoses, who were recruited from a summer residential treatment program. Participants completed measures of peer victimization, perceptions of social support, and …
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System interactions and mental health outcomes: rural African American men with serious mental illness, their social support networks, and community mental health agencies
African American men with serious mental illness experience disadvantages in mental health care resulting from both race and gender. The intent of this research is to better understand how rural African American men with serious mental illness and their social support networks interact with each …
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Cancer from a spatial perspective : locating the unspeakable, healing, and hope
Illness narratives in all their variety have become a central focus of the cultural study of health and disease. These stories inform other patients of what it is like to be living with a certain illness, or about treatment options, or about the possibilities of transcendence. They represent …
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Cancer from a spatial perspective : locating the unspeakable, healing, and hope
Illness narratives in all their variety have become a central focus of the cultural study of health and disease. These stories inform other patients of what it is like to be living with a certain illness, or about treatment options, or about the possibilities of transcendence. They represent …
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Integrating the Rare Disease Context into Medical Training Models
… often more informed about both the disease and illness experience (Babac et al., 2019); there are rarely guidelines to evaluate, and physicians often have very limited knowledge about the disease. This presents a new problem to the current notions of expertise and care. The purpose of this …
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A Qualitative Exploration of How Young People Experience and Make Sense of Medically Unexplained Symptoms
… medical explanation, defy expectations of the illness experience and provide significant challenges to medical services. Clinical guidelines recommend the coconstruction of a shared understanding of difficulties. However, this is difficult when symptoms do not have an explanation, and …
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Associations of Sex, Gender, and Gender Role Beliefs with Mental Health Attitudes
… is a strong deterrent for individual with mental illness utilizing mental healthcare. Individuals living with a mental illness experience shame and marginalization due to stigma. Stigma is perpetuated through stereotypes created and used by people in the majority. Studies have been done to assess …
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Explanatory models of illness amongst primary health care users in Mamre
This study explores the illness experiences of twenty one patients who presented for treatment at primary health care settings in Mamre, a small "coloured" community approximately 50km from Cape Town, with the aim of investigating the possible contribution of psychological factors to presentation …
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Living with uncertainty: A grounded theory of psychiatric stigma when seeking or maintaining employment
… was to investigate stigma for people who have experienced psychiatric disorder. Psychiatric stigma can exclude people both from economic roles and from participation in daily community life. Social and psychological reaction models of stigma adequately explain parts of this process but do not …
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Getting to the Doctor: BPSS Factors of Health Care Utilization in Fragile Families
… 2010) and are more likely to live in poverty and experience poorer health, face significant barriers to access and utilize health care services (De Marco & De Marco, 2009; Williams, 2008). Limited research exists on how these facets of the illness experience might differ for fragile families whose …
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A Wholistic Model of Cancer Care for Nursing Practice
… as an equal partner, and to convert the cancer experience into a positive growth process. The wholistic model incorporates nursing's metaparadigm concepts of nursing, person, environment and health as well as the additional concepts of hope, wholism, movement, transformation and disorder. The …
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