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The content of illness perception is organized in identity (symptoms), causes (factors that originate the illness), chronic or acute timeline, cyclical timeline (course of illness), consequences (physical, psychological, and social impacts), personal control (how much one can control or achieve), and treatment control (effectiveness of treatment in control or cure) dimensions.
Five items assess current cognitive representations of illness: consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control and identity.
Women reported negative illness consequences relating to stigma, loss of self-determination and changes to relationships.
An overall scale of illness perceptions will be computed by adding the items representing illness consequences, illness emotions and illness identity.
The Brief Illness Perceptions Questionnaire, IPQ(b), includes 1 item to represent each of the 7 main components of the IPQ-R: illness consequences; timeline; personal control; treatment control; identity; emotional concern; emotion and illness comprehensibility.
Some experts suggest that CAM use is predictably increased in situations such as cancer, where "illness consequences are high and beliefs in the effectiveness of conventional treatments (i.e. response efficacy) are low" [ 7].
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This might be on intensive phase patients take their medication daily in the health institution and Patient might have good adherence during intensive phase, probably the illness is severe and fear of illness consequence make them not to miss pill.
Later, she emails to say: "I have come to terms with the fact that my father was very ill, and that the symptoms of his illness had consequences for me as his daughter, but I still love him and I forgive him for everything".
For those who do come clean about their illness, the consequences can be catastrophic.
Jeannie Peeper, the main character in Carl Zimmer's Atlantic piece, "The Girl Who Turned to Bone," suffers from a different kind of illness whose consequences are not widely enough acknowledged.
The only black spot in an otherwise standard-issue rich Thirties boy existence was a childhood illness, the consequences of which never quite left him (he had a bad back all his life, and put up with it heroically).
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