EXPERIENCE WITH A STATE CHRONIC ILLNESS LAW

Cancer as a chronic illness? Reconsidering categorization and exploring experience.

This article explores the different ways that user experience is defined and conceptualized, and the various policy and professional contexts in which emphasis is placed on exploring users' views. We go on to examine the experience of cancer as a chronic illness and argue that, although there are common features in the experience of cancer and people with chronic illness, the differences are to...

Law and disorders : illness / disability and the experience of everyday problems involving the law

Abstract: Legal needs surveys, including the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey, have demonstrated a strong relationship between the experience of legal problems and long-term illness/disability. Furthermore, some overseas surveys have shown that the relationship is also evident for mental illness more specifically. However, research to date has generally not explored different types of physical...

Illness experience, depression, and anxiety in chronic fatigue syndrome.

OBJECTIVE Given the high rate of psychiatric comorbidity with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), we considered two possible correlates of anxiety and depression: lack of illness legitimization and beliefs about limiting physical activity. METHOD A total of 105 people diagnosed with CFS reported on their experiences with medical professionals and their beliefs about recovery and completed the dep...

Communicating the Experience of Chronic Pain and Illness Through Blogging

BACKGROUND Although more individuals are sharing their experiences with chronic pain or illness through blogging (writing an Internet web log), research on the psychosocial effects and motivating factors for initiating and maintaining a blog is lacking. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine via online questionnaire the perceived psychosocial and health benefits of blogging among patients who...

Mediation and Some Lessons from the Uniform State Law Experience