This ppt only for study purposes

1. AETCOM- 1.2

2. What Does It mean by
Patient?

3.  A balanced approach to the patient care experience requires an
understanding of
• Patients
• Illnesses
• Their concepts of suffering
• Coping mechanisms
• The role of the doctor
• An exploration of empathy vs equanimity
• The difference between healing and curing.

4. • Your (Student’s) views on
• Health,
• Disease
• Suffering

5. Discussion could involve your personal ill
health or involving someone they know
among their families and friends.

6. How did that experience affect them?

7. What do they believe patients feel and go through?

8. How does it affect patient’s behaviour,
outlook and expectations?

9. What is mean by PATIENT?
- Definition:-
A person who is suffering from illness and registered to
receive medical treatment from doctor.

10. Illness
-Illness is a state in which the physical, social,
developmental, intellectual, emotional or spiritual
functioning of the individual is diminished or
impaired.
-Acute illness
-Chronic illness

11. ACUTE ILLNESS
- Short duration
- Mostly severe
- Starts abruptly and subsides within the short period (6
months)
CHRONIC ILLNESS
- Persist for more than 6 months
- May affect the functioning of the body in any dimention
- Upto the level of disability
- Major health problem

12. MODEL of ILLNESS presentation
1) Cause of illness:- What is the cause of illness?
2) Timeline:- How long it will last?
3) Identity:- Symptoms attributed to the illness.
4) Controlled:- How can be it controlled or cured?

13. Illness Behaviour
- Any action or reaction of an individual who feels
unwell for the purpose of defining their state of health
and obtaining physical or emotional relief from acute
illness.

14. Becoming A Patient
-“Patients are human beings with very human hopes
and fears.”
-In the hospitals, they have been removed from their
accustomed environment.
-Their valuables and their cloths have been taken away
from them, and they feel “miserable, scared,
defenseless, and in their nakedness, unable to run
away”.

15. Variables affecting Illness behaviour
Internal Variables External variables
1. Perception of symptoms 1. Visibility of symptoms
2. Nature of illness. 2. Social group
3. Characteristics of the person 3. Culture and Values
4. Economic variables
5. Accessibility of
healthcare system

16. STAGES of Illness Behaviour
5 Stages of Illness behaviour
1) STAGE I- Symptom Experience
- Person feels that something is wrong in his body.
- Perceptions of the symptoms like pain, rashes, lumps, fever,
cold, cold etc.
- It is a symptom of an illness.

17. STAGE II- Assumption of Sick Role
- If the symptoms persist then the persons assumes that he is
suffering from the illness.
- Then he gets excuse from his normal duties and role.
- Emotional changes such as withdrawal, depression, physical
changes etc.
- The person may approach to the healthcare system.

18. STAGE III- Medical Care Contact
-Causes, duration of illness and its complication.
-Some seek medical treatment and advice but some
may refuse.

19. STAGE IV- Dependent stage
-After accepting the diagnosis, person become
dependent on healthcare professional for treatment.
-Here, the person accepts the treatment.

20. STAGE V- Recovery and Rehabilitation
-Symptoms of illness gets subsiding.
-In case of chronic illness, requires an adjustment to
prolong reduction in health and body functioning.

21. EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO THE ILLNESS
1) FEAR
2) OVER DEPENDENCE

22. 3) ANXIETY
4) HOPE

23. 5) ANGER & HOSTILITY

24. IMPACT OF ILLNESS
1) Behavioral and Emotional Changes