Exam 10: Understanding and Managing Chronic Illness

In the management of chronic disease, modest amounts of exercise--say, 2.5 hr per week--can ______.

Avoidance coping may be adaptive when one first learns one has an incurable disease.

Eddie has asthma. He knows that physical exercise is beneficial for not only his psychological well-being, but also the physical symptoms he experiences. Each day, he checks the pollen forecast on his weather app to see if it would be a good day for a brisk 30-min walk. Eddie's strategy reflects a coping strategy that psychologists called ______.

Which disease is NOT in the arthritis "family?"

About ______ million Americans have diabetes.

According to the textbook, more than ______ of those with diabetes have some type of sexual dysfunction.

Val has become diabetic. Her doctor gave her a lot of information about the psychological and physical symptoms of diabetes, and about how diabetes is treated. Val's family can expect that this information will ______.

Because Kai's illness is one of the MOST common chronic diseases experienced during childhood, there is a fair amount of online and real-life support for caregivers and families, even though there is no cure for it. Based on this information, Kai MOST likely suffers from ______.

Combating irrational beliefs, relaxation and mindfulness training, and training in coping and stress management are all elements of ______ approaches to managing chronic disease.

Cassileth and colleagues (1984).found that after about ______month(s) postdiagnosis, there is no differences in depression rates between healthy people and those with various chronic illnesses.

An HIV diagnosis is MORE stressful for those over 50 than for those under 50.

Influenza is one example of a chronic disease.

Create a flow chart depicting the four stages of HIV/AIDS described in the text. Name each stage and identify its key characteristics.

Thirty minutes of walking on a treadmill twice a week may be sufficient to reduce the symptoms of asthma.

Maranda and Gupta (2016) found that children with diabetes who reported caring for one or more pets at home were 2.5 times more likely to have control over their glucose levels than those who did not care for a pet. This result MOST likely reflects ______ research.