Sentence examples for abnormal illness from inspiring English sources

Fruitful lines of research are related to aspects that might help in explaining anxiety and depression components of headache, as personality characteristics, child trauma, abnormal illness behavior, recent life-events, allostatic load (the failure of an organism to achieve stability through change), and so on.

(S14) … there's a spectrum which we could call abnormal illness behaviour.

The questionnaire, which consists of 29 self-rated items, is designed to measure abnormal illness behaviour and hypochondriasis.

The exceptions are "inconclusive" and "abnormal pain syndrome" categories, the latter defined by "abnormal illness behaviour" [ 81].

Clinicians and textbooks may attribute unsuccessful reassurance to patients' abnormal illness behaviour, i.e. persistence of illness behaviour despite medical reassurance [ 13, 17- 19].

These reactions not only damage the doctor-patient relationship, but encourage abnormal illness behaviour, notably including the quest for 'legitimate' symptoms and investigations, thereby worsening outcomes [ 74, 75].

Given that it is the result of a social interaction, stigma's manifestations vary from one culture to another [ 6, 7]; each society determines what is considered abnormal, how illness is defined and how and where help is sought [ 8].

The implication is that society's obsession with "normality" has led it to diagnose anything abnormal as an illness, one that needs to be treated with expensive drugs and psychotherapy.

Subjects with a history of typhoid fever, Ty21a vaccination in the last 10 years or any other typhoid vaccine in the last 5 years, any clinically significant illness, abnormal blood test results, immune suppression, positive HIV or pregnancy test were excluded.

We stratified the proportion of subjects with abnormal values by illness severity (APACHE III), subsequent development of SS, and 90-day mortality.

Participants were asked to evaluate the impact of their illness (abnormal diagnosis and its consequences) on various aspects of their lives (Table 3).