The document discusses the patient perspective of illness. It defines illness as a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind. Illness behavior refers to how individuals monitor their bodies, interpret symptoms, take action, and seek help. Illness behavior is influenced by internal variables like perception of symptoms and characteristics of the person, and external variables like social groups, culture, and accessibility of healthcare. Understanding the patient perspective is important for increased quality of life, as it determines patient behavior and compliance.

1. PATIENT
PERSPECTIVE OF
ILLNESS
Dr.AnzlaAli

2. Illness:
a disease or period of sickness affecting
the body or mind.

3. Illness is condition of pronounced deviation
from normal healthy status
Illness is subjecting experience.

4. Illness behavior:
■The manner in which individuals
monitor their bodies, define and
interpret their symptoms, take remedial
action, and utilize sources of help as
well as the more formal health care
system

5. Examples:
■Inflammation
■Sickness
■ Behavior
■ Depression

6. Determination of illness behavior:
■ Recognizability of illness behavior
■ The extent the person perceives symptoms as serious
■ Information, knowledge and cultural assumptions
■ Disruption in family work and social activity
■ Frequency of appearance
■ Tolerance Level
■ Physical proximity of treatment resource

7. Stages of illness behavior:
■Edward Suchman (1972) identified
Stages of illness of behavior.

9. Variable Affecting illnesses behavior:
■Internal variable
■External variable

10. Internal variable:
■Perception of symptoms
■Nature of illness
■Characteristics of person

11. 1.Perceptive of illness:
■Way of perceiving the symptoms of Illness that
influences illness.

12. 2.Nature of illness:
■ Nature of illness also effect illness behavior
■ As in the case of acute when the person is taking treatment that
will be
if a person takes symptoms not to seriously and adequate treatment,
recovery will be quick,but if a person takes it very seriously,it may
become lifr threatening and fatal for a person.

13. 3.Characteristics of a person:
■How a person respond to illness depends upon the
adjusting, coping abilities.
■ He may become well adjusted to Illness or become mentally
disturbed

14. External variable:
■ Visibility of symptoms
■ Social group
■ Culture and Values
■ Economic variables
■ Accessibility of health care system

15. 1. Visibility of symptoms:
■ Visibility of symptoms effect body image as well as behavior . The
clients with visible symptoms are more likely to seek resistance
than clients without symptoms.
EXAMPLE:
Vision impairments, numbness, fatigue, pain, and cognitive problems
are a few of the common invisible symptoms.

16. Biopsychosocial model:

17. 2. Social Group:

18. 3. Culture and Values:

19. 4. Economic variables:
■ Economic variables are measurements that describe economic units,
like the GDP, Inflation or Interest Rates. A variable is defined as a set of
attributes of an object. Attributes are characteristics that describe an
object.

20. 5. Accessibility of Health Care
System:
■ Access to health care means having "the timely use of personal health
services to achieve the best health outcomes"

21. Patient perspective of illness:
“Patient perspective” is the patient's experience of PH and
its impact on him/her and caregivers, including
symptomatic, intellectual, psychosocial, spiritual and goal-
oriented dimensions of the disease and its treatment.

22. Factors:
■ Influenced by environment
■ Two kinds of environment: Internal and external
■ Example of internal factors: physiological, spirtual and cultural
■ Example of external factors: technology,politics And economics
■ Influenced by environmenteconomicsnd of environment : Internal and external
■ Example of internal factors : cultural ,spirtual and physiological
■ Example of external factors: Technology, politics and economi

23. Perspective on illness:
■ Perspective on illness includes
■ 1: Perceived susceptibility
■ 2: Perceived seriousness
■ 3: Perceived barriers
■ 4: Perceived benefits

24. Components of illness perception:
■ Illness identity (Symptoms)
■ Beliefs
■ Timeline
■ Coherence
■ Consequences
■ Control ability
■ Emotional representation

25. Promotion of education regarding to
patient perception:
■ Education of perceived susceptibility and
perceived seriousness allow the patient
to understand reality of illness.
■ If not educated ,“ the patient are not fully
able to act on the interventions
suggested by providers.

26. Role of Nurse:
■Patient care
■A nurse is a caregiver for patients and helps to manage
physical needs, prevent illness, and treat health
conditions. To do this, they need to observe and monitor
the patient, recording any relevant information to aid in
treatment decision-making.

27. Role of Nurse:
■ play a critically important role in ensuring patient safety by monitoring patients
for clinical deterioration, detecting errors and near misses, understanding care
processes and weaknesses inherent in some systems, and performing
countless other tasks to …

28. Importance of understanding patient
perspection of illness:
_The attempt to understand patient
perspective to illness is imperative to
increased quality of life for the patient.

29. ~Importance of accessing illness
patient prescription:
■It determines the behavior of
the patient!!! 

30. *Benefits to patient:
1. Increase patient satisfaction
2. Increase patient compliance
3. Improved self-reported health status
4. Improved outcomes in physical and mental function

31. When therapeutic conversation is not
used?
■Participants express frustration when
they are not being heard, leading to lack
of respect Both from and for the
Provider .The need to heard impacts the
quality of life for patient.

32. Aspect of Therapeutics with patients
perspective:
*Techniques
■Active listening
■Trust
■Respect
■Empathy

33. Summary:
■ : a condition of being unhealthy in your body or mind is called illness
■ Any actions or reactions of an individual who feels unwell is called behavior of
illness
■ Variable influencing behavior of illness are Internal variable and External
variable
■ The patient’s experience of PH and its impact on him/her and caregivers is
called patient perspective of illness
■ These perceptions have been found to be important determinants of behaviour
and have been associated with a number of important outcomes, such as
treatment adherence and functional recovery

34. Thank you