1 Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Simpson College, 701 North C Street, Indianola, IA 50125, USA Department of Anesthesia, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Suite 207F, 780 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94040, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, IOP 5-North, 507, Charleston, SC 29...

There is a specter haunting the American health care system. It is the prospect of widespread chronic illness and disability in an aging society. With it comes a daunting challenge to our health care delivery system, social welfare services, families, and communities. And it presents an equally difficult challenge to millions of us as individuals. For prolonged, slowly debilitating chronic illn...

We propose the term illness personification (ILL-PERF) as an organizing theme shedding light on the ways individuals live with, under, and outside of chronic physical illness. Drawing from multiple theoretical sources—object relations theory, social– cognitive theory, existential phenomenology and neuroscience—as well as from our own research program on chronic pain and systemic lupus erothemat...

Accurate illness perceptions are essential to the self-management of chronic illness. This study explored trajectories of illness perceptions in persons with morbid obesity (n = 53) and persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (n = 52) following a patient education course. Participants completed the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire five times over a 1-year period. Repeated measu...

Interest is growing in the use of wearable devices to monitor patients with covid-19 and chronic illness, writes Jo Best

background: multiple sclerosis is a common disorder between neural and immune systems whose main psychological consequence is dropping the quality of life. the lack of a basic targeted theoretical model is the most common flaw of few pre trails. it has been shown; the components of leventhals’ model (illness representations) are associated with chronic illness outcomes. the aim of this study wa...

background: illness representations (based on leventhal's model) are associated with chronic illness outcomes. it has been suggested that targeting these cognitive components improves illness outcomes. multiple sclerosis is a common disorder between neural and immune systems that creates physical and psychological consequences. there are few pre psychological trails on these patients. the aim o...