Each item is rated on a five-point Likert scale from 0 (not at all distressing) to 5 (very much distressing), indicating how much the patient suffers subjectively from these illness aspects.
Furthermore, when employed as a low level intervention in schizophrenia, customised daily text prompts for different illness aspects improved outcomes in those areas [ 22], and weekly monitoring of early warning signs by patients and relatives improved rates of relapse and hospital readmission [ 23].
All the same, the IoT has also raised issues concerning data security, personal privacy and health and psychological illnesses, aspects that highlight the importance of education in ethical uses of the IoT framework and the data collected.
A checklist, based on the assessment tool of Emmert et al 9 and extended by several questions covering relevant cost-of-illness aspects (see online supplementary appendix 1), was generated to assess the overall quality of included studies reporting direct or indirect costs of illness.
When determining the most appropriate maintenance treatment plan for an illness one aspect that needs to be considered is the risk of recurrence after discontinuation of treatment.
It may be the actual diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, certain aspects of the treatment process, test results, information given about recurrence or some other aspect of the cancer experience.
Within our papers, symptoms of mental illness and aspects of emotional well-being were intertwined, with an emphasis on the negative rather than the positive.
Whether and how subjective views of illness affect aspects of the self could differ based on a person's country of origin.
Of the six non-treatment related observational studies a number of characteristics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis were examined including mortality, morbidity, disease progression, cost of illness and aspects of HRQOL.
