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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Illness identity"”.
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The role of illness representations in the process of coping and psychosocial adjustment among adults with epilepsy
… the role of cognitive representations of illness and coping efforts on patients responses to health threats. In this thesis the relationships between illness representations, coping and psychosocial adjustment were investigated among 94 epilepsy patients. The sample comprised three groups; …
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Thought Suppression Change in Cancer Patients and Survivors After Writing
… and psychologically straining features. The illness perception theory states that individuals form illness representations to make sense of health threats and illness. These representations contain a number of individual, specific attributes about the illness identity, and cause, time-line, …
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What matters to me? Photovoice with people living with severe mental illness
… services users with severe or serious mental illness whose voices have traditionally been silenced to add to the growing body of knowledge as to how these identified gaps can be addressed. Four participants who attend a day service were issued with cameras and asked to photograph ‘What Matters …
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The subjective experiences of disagreeing with one's diagnosis of schizophrenia – a phenomenological study
… of society, and (III) Moving away from “mental illness”. Superordinate theme (I) centres around making sense of one’s experiences and creating a coherent self-narrative that can be held as true. Superordinate theme (II) centres around the participants’ experiences of themselves in relation to …
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Illness Representations of Breast Cancer among Hispanics
… is limited. The current study investigated illness representations of cancer and their determinants among Hispanic men and women (N = 120) using a cross - sectional survey approach. The study sample was comprised of predominantly first generation, employed Hispanic women in their early - …
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Developing a patient-centred outcome measure for patients suffering with pernicious anaemia
… outcomes in terms of determining the impact of illness on daily functioning, and subsequently informing health interventions. Given the absence of objective markers of patients’ experience, the current thesis describes the development of a patient-centred measure for the identification and …
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Factors that influence how relationships adjust to a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome: A grounded theory
… the introduction of a powerful entity ME/CFS (‘Illness identity or It’). The couple managed these disruptions by working through periods of ‘loss and grief’ using skills such as humour, communication and understanding. Through this process the couple were able to identify and begin to implement …
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Messy boundaries: the lived experience when younger children’s nursing students are required to care for young people
… during their journeys toward successful self-identity. The research undertaken identified two key dimensions: that of professional identity of the student nurses and that of illness identity for the young patients. These issues have been critically analysed using the theoretical underpinning …