"It involves much more loss of control, more distress, deeper feelings of guilt and unhappiness".
A broad range of applications was observed (e.g. improving quality of life and symptom control, reducing distress) across many diseases/conditions (e.g. HIV, cancer, epilepsy).
Compared to the other two subgroups, the adaptive copers showed best scores for life control, affective distress, and general activities.
Medication adherence was associated with lower perceived consequences of diabetes, higher personal control, lower distress, and fewer symptoms.
Part one consists of five scales and is designed to measure important dimensions of psychological factors of pain; pain severity, interference, life control, affective distress and support.
The uncertainly, lack of control, and distress described by the study participants highlight the critical need to address the significant transitions of environment, physical and mental health, roles/relationships and activities of daily living.
Information provides a sense of control, reduces distress, facilitates adaptive coping, and increases participation in shared decision-making (SDM) with physicians (Gregoire et al, 1997; van Wersch et al, 1997a, 1997b; Davison et al, 2003).
This may be self-imposed by the patients to help managing their condition, but it may lead to feelings of loss of control and distress and it diminishes life satisfaction.
Participants had access to the Health Navigation website and were guided through a twelve week programme including sessions on energy conservation, physical activity, nutrition, sleep hygiene, pain control and distress management [ 24].
