Exam 9: Factors Surrounding Illness: Illness Cognitions, Adherence, and Patient-Practitioner Interactions

Among minority patients, traditional medicine continues to be important regardless of the significant increase in the use of Western medicine.

Which of the following is FALSE?

Cultural competence ______.

A patient's attitude toward self-care and the extent to which they want to be a part of their treatment is referred to as the level of ______.

European American children of Italian descent are frequently taken first to the eldest family female, then to a paterna, then to a curandera, then a pharmacia and then to a Western medical clinic for an asthma attack.

The Commonsense Model of Illness Behavior takes culture into account when examining how people adapt to health threats.

Explain how acculturation and ethnic identity can play an important part in the use of Western mental health and medical health services.

Very often we do not realize or recognize the true causes of our symptoms.If you have been very stressed, and start putting on weight because of it, you may first instead blame a new diet.The underlying psychological process is known as ______.

Although there are patients of various backgrounds who have had negative encounters with people in the health care system, there is no research evidence that people from certain cultural groups are given less information or treated worse than other groups.

Which of the following is FALSE?

Calista's doctors play a pivotal role in making decisions in the hospital for her because she was unable to do so (because of her medical condition).This type of patient-practitioner interaction is referred to as the ______ model.

Individuals with low self-esteem have been found to report more health problems.

The Commonsense Model is based on the parallel processes of how we use ______ to guide our behavior.

A recent study found that when participants were made to think of the common cold they actually walked more slowly than their counterparts with a cold who did not focus on the common cold.

Which of the following is TRUE when comparing men and women?

Which of the following is NOT one of the five triggers (Zola, 1964) that increase the likelihood of a person seeking treatment?

Ulrich, Simons and Miles (2003) found that patient stress was lowest during blood draws when ______.

Modi et al.(2008) found that preadolescents and adolescents who had better adherence ______.

Steve did not finish his antibiotic prescription because he was feeling better, and he saved the remaining pills in case he would feel ill later in the season.This is an example of ______.

Describe some of the cultural clashes concerning the Lee family and their traditional Hmong beliefs concerning the illness of their daughter, and the Western doctor's reaction to their daughter's illness.What might have been done by the health care system to improve the outcome of the daughter's care?