Using a mixed methods approach in the collection of this data would highlight any differences between perceived timelines and actual timelines.
Within the acute psychological group, the strongest risk factors were total ICU mood, intrusive memories and perceived illness timeline (Additional file 1, Table S2).
Overall, the strongest independent risk factors for PTSD were three acute psychological factors (ICU mood, intrusive memories and perceived illness timeline) and a chronic factor, psychological history (Table 5, column 3).
"Travels in the Great Tree of Life" appeared to resolve other common misconceptions found in front-end study: Cladograms were no longer perceived as timelines or examples of evolutionary "progress" from simple to complex life forms.
Illness perception models consist of frameworks to organise information from multiple sources into distinct but interrelated dimensions: identity (the illness label), cause, consequences, emotional representations perceived control and timeline.
Hyperlipidemia was associated with greater timeline perceptions (perceived to last for longer) for people prescribed 6 or more medicines.
These are: identity (the symptoms that the patient associates with the illness), cause (personal ideas about etiology), timeline (the perceived duration of the illness), consequences (expected effects and outcome) and cure-control (how one controls or recovers from the illness).
This theoretical framework incorporates both cognitive and emotional representations of illness along five core dimensions: illness identity, perceived causality, expectations about timeline, consequences of illness, and beliefs about curability and control.
Illness perception models consist of theoretical frameworks to organise information on patients beliefs and expectations into distinct but interrelated dimensions: identity (the illness label), cause, consequences, emotional representation, timeline and perceived control [ 14, 26- 28].
The significant independent predictors of disability were identity beliefs (perceived symptoms), personal control beliefs, timeline beliefs, and pain self-efficacy; fear-avoidance variables tended to be weaker predictors.
