It's all geared toward healing, coping, and understanding trauma: This happened to me but this is not going to destroy me.
Supportive care needs can be defined as requirements for care arising during illness and treatment to manage symptoms and side effects, enable adaption and coping, optimise understanding and informed decision-making, and minimise decrements in functioning.
Coyne and Racioppo [ 8] highlighted that understanding coping and coping styles has not necessarily improved researchers' understanding of the efficacy of psychosocial interventions aimed at increasing coping.
What for Romme distinguished the voices of the patients most from those of the nonpatients was that the latter felt that they had control over their voices; they rarely sought to eradicate or ignore them and devised ways of coping with and understanding them.
The PHDP needs understanding, coping and self-care strategies as much as the next guy.
Illness cognitions are common sense beliefs about illness [ 18] and provide a schema for coping with and understanding illness.
Traditional health care is an important alternative source of understanding, coping, and managing health problems, including infertility, in the Gambia [ 17].
Studying contributors to adaptation to BPD, including illness perceptions and coping, broadens our understanding of the inter-relationship of these concepts and can inform the design of intervention studies aimed at improving psychological wellbeing.
These related to the language used, meanings and attitudes to menopause, symptoms experienced, the role of men, a lack of understanding, coping mechanisms and the attribution of menopausal changes to something else.
It would be of significant benefit to further develop and extend this work using both children and adults, as better understanding coping strategies for dentally fearful people may lead to significant improvements in both dental service utilization and oral health.
