General systems theory offers an intuitively appealing model for understanding illness presenting in primary care.
Illness cognitions are common sense beliefs about illness [ 18] and provide a schema for coping with and understanding illness.
Distinguishing between substance-induced psychosis (SIP) and primary psychosis is crucial for understanding illness and providing optimal treatment.
In contrast, reasons for being adherent included the relative absence of side effects, faith in healthcare team and imatinib, and understanding illness and treatment.
Patient-centred care (PCC) answers to this challenge by incorporating patients' preferences, values, beliefs, illness understanding, illness experience and information needs into the decision-making process, thus encouraging patient engagement and collaborative goal setting [ 15, 16].
His work also contributed to the understanding of illnesses like dementia, strokes, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
Gene expression profiles of postmortem brain tissue represent important resources for understanding neuropsychiatric illnesses.
Most patients had an everyday understanding of illnesses which can cause misunderstandings.
(GP3) The GPs' medical understanding of illnesses must be translated into the patients' level of understanding and vice versa.
Understanding which illnesses are most likely to occur will improve the care of passengers who need emergency medical assistance while traveling on board commercial flights.
(Patient 17) Both patients and clinicians described increased patient understanding of illnesses or 'problems' as a positive outcome from primary care.
