2. Illness
• A disease or period of sickness affecting the
body of mind.
• Illness is condition of pronounced deviation from
normal healthy status.
• Illness is subjecting experience.
3. Illness Behavior
• The manner in which individuals monitor their
bodies, define and interpret their symptoms ,
take remedial action, and utilize source of help
as well as more formal health care system.
• Examples:
Inflammation
Sickness
Behavior
Depression
4. Determination of Illness
behavior
• Recognizability of illness behavior
• The extent the person perceives symptoms as
serious.
• Information, knowledge and cultural assumption
• Disruption inn family work and social activity
• Frequency of appearance
• Tolerance Level
• Physical proximity of treatment resource
5. Stages of Illness Behavior
• Edward Suchman (1972) identified
stages of illness of behavior
6.
7. Variable Affecting
Illnessess Behavior
• 1. Internal variable
• 2. External variable
1. Internal Behavior
Perception of Symptoms
Nature of Illness
Characteristics of person
9. 2. Nature of Illness
• Nature of Illness also affect illness behavior
• As in the case of acute when the person is
taking treatment
• If a person takes symptoms not to seriously and
adequate treatment , recovery will be quick, but
if a person take it very seriously, it may become
life threatening and fatal for a person.
10. 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.
11. External Variable
• Visibility of Symptoms
• Social group
• Culture and Values
• Economic variable
• Accessibility of health care system
12. Visibility of Symptoms
• The visibility of symptoms affect body image as
well as behavior. The client with visible
symptoms are more likely to seek more
assistance than clients without symptoms .
13. 2. Social Group
• Social group is defined as two or more people
who interact with one another, share similar
characteristics, and collectively have a sense of
unity. Regardless, social groups come in a many
of sizes and varieties.
• For example, a society can be viewed as a
large social group
14. Culture and Values
• Cultural values are a culture's core beliefs about what's
good or right.
• We all have cultural values. These are sometimes called
'cultural value preferences'. They’re informed by the
cultures we most associate ourselves with. These values
are neither positive nor negative - they're just
differences.
• Cultural values can influence the way we treat others
and want others to treat us.
15. Economic variable
• 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.
16. Accessibility of health care system
• Health care access is the ability to obtain
healthcare services such as prevention,
diagnosis, treatment, and management of
diseases, illness, disorders, and other
health-impacting conditions. For
healthcare to be accessible it must be
affordable and convenient.
17.
18. 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.
19. Factors
• Influenced by environment
• Two kinds of environment: Internal and External
• Example of internal factors: physiological,
spiritual and cultural
• Example of external factors: technology, politics
and economics
20. Perspective on Illness
• perspective of Illness includes
• 1. Perceived susceptibility
• 2. Perceived seriousness
• 3. Perceived barriers
• 4. Perceived benefits
22. 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 intervention suggested by previous.
