PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pain Management, Patient Education, Flight Controller
21 Mar 2017
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Chapter 9- the world of health care: places, procedures, and people. Seeking medical care: perceiving symptoms: influenced by. Individual differences: mood, personality traits, stress, gender, age differences. Depends on: type of symptoms experienced, more likely to seek help if symptoms are, new, unexpected, painful, disruptive, highly visible or, affects highly valued parts of the body. Illness delay: appraisal delay, behavioural delay, medical delay. Different types of patients can have very different experiences: outpatients- do not stay overnight, seen in office, clinic or ambulatory care facility. Inpatient- admitted for at least overnight: day care patients- more involved than a simple procedure, but patient does not stay overnight, emergency patients- length of stay depends on severity. Total institution- the hospital takes (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol of (cid:448)irtuall(cid:455) e(cid:448)er(cid:455) aspe(cid:272)t of a patie(cid:374)t"s life. Reactance- loss of control is perceived as an unacceptable challenge to freedom and arouses anger.
